Agile Delivery Lead

Job ID: 2306651

• Maintain close working relationships with product owners, other teams, and stakeholders.
• Identify organizational roadblocks that limit team productivity and quality and provide feedback to improve, innovate, and successfully deliver products.
• Due to the size and stage of the agile/devops transition, this person will be expected to consult with other teams to share learning across the organization.
• Collaborate with the agile transition team of other scrum masters / delivery leads, experienced coaches and those facilitating the transition to agility.
• Over time, after setting up his/her first team successfully, the agile/devops delivery lead will be expected to embed with a second team to get them running smoothly on their own.
• Guide a team of both dedicated and matrixed system engineers and infrastructure technologists to successfully deliver significant infrastructure change in a large-scale government enterprise environment.
• Infrastructure enterprise environment includes, but is not limited to, cable plant management, circuit logistics, network, server, applications, voice and A/V builds.
• Requires the use of outstanding communication and soft skills including collaborative leadership skills to influence others, with or without direct authority, and to unite groups with diverse perspectives in order to bring teams to consensus/alignment.

• Active DoD Secret Clearance required, with the ability to attain a Top Secret Clearance
• Bachelors and five years or more of demonstrated experience in the following associated agile. scrum and/or DevOps activities:
• DevSecOps, Lean, Agile, SCRUM, Design Thinking and other industry leading initiatives
• Experience with (or knowledge of) Cloud automation or DevSecOps necessary to perform the job
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, work sessions, decision-making process, and help resolve conflicts and issues
• Proficient with Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tracking tools (i.e. Azure DevOps, Jira)
• Continual direct, timely oral and written communication at the executive level - aligning goals and expectations
• Monitoring and reporting progress and performance and assist teams to make improvements
• Helping product owners and development teams achieve customer satisfaction
• Encourage and guide product owners (customers) to help them do the following: review and write stories, engage directly with the team, answer questions which remove impediments and bring other users or stakeholders to demos for feedback.
• Help others in waterfall environment adjust by monitoring and reporting progress of initiatives against initial expectations and communicating variance between the plan and actual results
• Participate in creation and evolution of tools and templates to optimize organizational efficiencies.