Agile Delivery Lead – Scrum Master, Team 2, Mission Applications & Integration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee Agile delivery initiatives for Team 2, focusing on mission applications, integrations, interfaces, and associated software capabilities.

• Facilitate sprint planning sessions, daily coordination meetings, backlog refinement workshops, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

• Create and uphold a consistent Agile delivery schedule that aligns with Government priorities and approved program timelines.

• Collaborate with product owners, mission liaisons, and technical leads to prioritize and enhance the backlog.

• Assist in defining sprint goals and commitments based on priorities, capacity, dependencies, and risks.

• Monitor sprint commitments, progress, scope changes, impediments, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.

• Identify and escalate delivery obstacles and coordinate their resolution.

• Manage cross-team dependencies concerning applications, interfaces, APIs, data exchanges, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, training, and releases.

• Coordinate dependencies with external systems, data providers, mission partners, and other Agile teams.

• Organize weekly demonstrations and gather stakeholder feedback, decisions, and backlog updates.

• Prepare, maintain, and submit Development Sprint Plans.

• Create Sprint Summary Reports detailing accomplishments, unfinished work, testing, integration outcomes, demonstrations, feedback, risks, dependencies, and follow-up actions.

• Track and analyze delivery metrics, including sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time, work aging, impediments, defects, and commitment completion.

• Utilize delivery data to spot trends, facilitate discussions on improvements, and suggest corrective actions.

• Collaborate with requirements analysts, developers, integration engineers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, and release teams.

• Aid in backlog prioritization and expedite urgent defect handling, failed integrations, or security-related changes.

• Foster communication among Team 2, Agile teams, program leadership, Government representatives, and external stakeholders.

• Maintain Agile boards, delivery dashboards, dependency logs, action logs, decision records, and related program artifacts.

• Assist in integration planning, release planning, release-readiness reviews, user acceptance activities, and operational transition coordination.

• Mentor team members and stakeholders on Agile practices, collaboration, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Provide delivery updates, forecasts, risks, and performance information for program reporting and governance.

• Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of Agile delivery and cross-team integration processes throughout the ENLIST program.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent qualification as permitted by the relevant labor category.

• A minimum of ten years of pertinent professional experience.

• Experience in facilitating Agile software delivery teams.

• Proven ability to manage dependencies across various technical teams or workstreams.

• Experience in facilitating sprint planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

• Experience in tracking sprint commitments, impediments, risks, dependencies, actions, and delivery metrics.

• Proficient in collaborating with product owners, technical leads, developers, testers, and Government or business stakeholders.

• Ability to manage dependencies related to mission applications, interfaces, integrations, data exchanges, or external systems.

• Capable of preparing sprint plans, delivery summaries, metrics, status reports, and executive-level briefings.

• Skilled in identifying delivery risks and impediments, coordinating resolutions, and communicating impacts.

• Strong facilitation, leadership, conflict resolution, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a complex, cross-functional software environment.

• Scrum or Agile certification is preferred.

• Experience in supporting federal or Department of Defense software development or modernization programs is preferred.

• Background in leading Agile delivery for mission-critical, regulated, or high-availability information systems is preferred.

• Familiarity with military accession processing, personnel processing, or similar mission workflows is preferred.

• Experience with APIs, external interfaces, data exchanges, system integrations, or various application platforms is preferred.

• Experience in preparing formal sprint plans, sprint summary reports, Government demonstrations, and contract delivery artifacts is preferred.

• Experience coordinating delivery across software, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, data, training, and operations teams is preferred.

• Proficiency with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar platforms is preferred.

• Experience in Agile, DevSecOps, or secure software development environments is preferred.

• Familiarity with requirements traceability, interface control documentation, integration testing, user acceptance testing, release management, and configuration management is preferred.

• PMP certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.

• Opportunity to support a USMEPCOM ENLIST government program.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Chicago-area candidates preferred.

• Opportunity to collaborate with Government stakeholders, mission partners, and cross-functional technical teams.