Agile Coach Engineer

Description

SAIC’s National Security Group is seeking an Agile Coach Systems Engineer to fill a position on the Landmark AOS program. Landmark AOS is a large SETA contract responsible for the complete end-to-end life cycle of the customer's Ground Enterprise. The position will be located in Chantilly, VA and requires an active TS/SCI with Polygraph .

Job responsibilities 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

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD and 4 years related experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph
• Experience using Agile project management tools, such as Jira
• 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.
• NRO experience (preferably Ground)
• Knowledgeable of Agile frameworks (preferably SAFe)
• Familiarity with IC and/or DoD space architectures, systems, and/or operations a PLUS!