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

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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!

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: 2406047

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