Agile Coach
Apply NowCompany: SAIC
Location: Chantilly, VA 20152
Description:
Description
SAIC is seeking an Agile Coach to fill a critical position on the LANDMARK AOS program in Chantilly, VA. LANDMARK AOS is a large SETA contract, supporting the customer's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.
Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph required.
Job responsibilities to include:
Required Education and Experience:
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
SAIC is seeking an Agile Coach to fill a critical position on the LANDMARK AOS program in Chantilly, VA. LANDMARK AOS is a large SETA contract, supporting the customer's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.
Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph required.
Job responsibilities to include:
- Work closely with system stakeholders and technical teams to help them understand and execute an approach to evaluating and prioritizing cross-program capabilities and requirements
- Provide coaching, feedback, and advice to government teams on Agile system engineering processes, practices, and activities using industry best practices
- Provide coaching on specific roles, including but not limited to: Solution Managers, Solution Train Engineers, Release Train Engineers, and Product Owners
- Proactively seek opportunities to use process improvement and re-engineering methodologies to facilitate improvements to processes
- Apply systems analysis and design methodology assessments to identify technical debt, architectural runway, and efficiency trade-offs against current and proposed/desired cloud-based software system design
- Develop and support Agile maturity assessments and coaching plans for Solution and Program level teams
- Support the identification, collection and reporting of Agile execution metrics and measurements to communicate adoption progress, bottlenecks, and areas of opportunity
- Develop briefings and training courses or materials for Solution and Program level teams
- Organize and lead Release Planning events to set release goals, objectives, and roadmap
- Facilitate positive team dynamics to help maximize team performance
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph
- Experience using Agile project management tools, such as Jira
- Knowledgeable of Agile frameworks (preferably SAFe)
- Experience as a certified Scrum Master, certified Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, or Agile Coach
- Strong organizational, time-management, and verbal / written communication skills, able to convey information across multiple customer and corporate audiences
- Ability to facilitate larger sessions or events for release planning, etc.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.