Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client leadership by offering strategic recommendations and responsive support.
- Work with the program manager and stake holders to define the technological roadmap.
- Serve as main point of contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes and enhancing awareness of work in progress.
- Promote collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts.
- Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change.
- Support the maturity of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including aligning ART activities with client objectives and fostering collaboration across teams.
- Encourage organizational alignment of the ART (Agile Release Train) with client strategy and goals, and business objectives.
- Foster collaboration among teams to facilitate flow of work, remove impediments and help to escalate issues through problem-solving actions.
- Enable internal engagement in Innovation and Planning opportunities to promote continuous improvement.
- Help manage risks, constraints, and dependencies that impact the ART’s goals.
- Identify and track metrics that enable data-driven decisions and improvements.
- Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and ART Syncs.
- Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties.
- Maintain weekly communication with the client’s Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group
- Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput.
- Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization and forecast to optimize delivery schedules.
- Promotes a strategy with actionable, monitorable steps to enhance code quality, automation testing, adopt test driven development, shift security left, and strengthen requirements traceability.
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Due to federal requirements only US Citizens who do not possess dual citizenship with another country may be considered. Selected candidates will be required to successfully complete a government-sponsored clearance process for position of public trust prior to start.
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- 7+ years of Direct Management Experience of developers.
- Experienced in guiding and supporting developers across several Scrum teams to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices and delivery goals.
- Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools.
- Ability to think quickly, act swiftly, and adapt.
- Demonstrated confidence in tasking peers and providing high‑impact briefings to senior leadership and organizational stakeholders.
- Proven experience developing, coordinating, and delivering formal contract deliverables from inception to completion, leveraging input from capability SMEs across the program.
- Experience working with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance engineers while ensuring they are complying with program processes and norms.
- Experience working in a scaled Agile environment.
- Agile Certifications/Trainings.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Experienced in developing solutions using Java, XBRL, and HTML, and building APIs leveraging JSON and REST service architectures.
- Provides strategic development leadership and end‑to‑end process ownership for multiple Scrum teams, ensuring alignment with Agile practices and delivery goals.
- Experienced in modernizing legacy applications by implementing microservice architecture patterns, enabling improved scalability, maintainability, and deployment efficiency.
- Prior experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or similar SAFe leadership role.
- Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift platform.
- Experience managing IT/Software projects at a financial agency.
- Consulting or Systems Integration experience to a federal department or agency in support of a high visibility system/application.
- SAFe Certifications/Trainings.
- Hands on experience with AI/ML powered tools to accelerate code generation, unit test creation, and overall development efficiency.
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