Agile Coach with Security Clearance

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: * 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 Qualifications 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.