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- Establish strategy and approach to transform customer software development from a traditional SDLC methodology to Agile methodology.
- Lead the development and execution plan to support the transformation to Agile methodology, including development of processes, templates, artifacts, training materials, and lessons-learned.
- Lead the efforts of developing Agile software engineering and management best practices, metrics, and audit practices.
- Manage enterprise-wide Agile software engineering support across customer organization.
- Conduct Scrum team training, scrum of scrums, PI planning sessions, retrospective workshops, and Lean software development workshops for teams.
- Develop Agile/Scrum processes, including analysis of existing processes, elicitation of requirements from subject matter experts, and application of industry best practices and standards.
- Analyze and articulate complex subject matter via white papers and presentations, enabling the ease of comprehension by customers and all stakeholders.
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of customers lifecycles, standards, and supporting processes and practices.
- Serves as liaison between the client Agile Center of Excellence, Systems and product teams by sharing best practices and lessons learned for continuous improvement
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, products & teams by providing necessary guidance to drive towards agile maturity, influence change & achieve desired outcome.
- Coach leaders, managers, teams & stakeholders to organize around value, address delays and build efficiency for the agency.
- Collaborate with product leaders to create and maintain Agile Coaching Plan based on product needs and drives activities throughout the product.
- Drive continuous improvement activities to enable high performing products and teams with improved business and customer outcomes
- Bachelors degree and 4 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 2 years of relative experience, or a minimum of 8 years related experience in lieu of a degree
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in leading/coaching large Agile programs and projects, including extensive experience in leading software development and system deployments.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in supporting large scale enterprise-wide Agile transformation.
- Minimum of 2 year of experience in conducting Agile team training.
- Active Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Experience with and understanding of doing business with the federal government.
- Ability to understand technical legacy systems and associated component functionalities.
- Experience with enterprise architecture, application planning, and deployment.
- Experience leading efforts to prepare lifecycle documents.
- A solid understanding of the federal client operations.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience interfacing with executives and senior technical resources at all levels.
- Ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.
- Agile Coach Certification
- PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- SAFe Agilist
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (SAFe POPM)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)