Job Title: 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 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.