Agile Coach

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 Prime 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

• Bachelor's and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.

• SAFe certified (SA or SPC)

• Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.

• 4+ years of Agile Coach experience

• Experience using Agile project management tools, such as Jira, etc

• 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.

• Experience supporting the IC

• Knowledgeable of Agile frameworks (preferably SAFe)

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. REQNUMBER:

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability