Agile Delivery Lead – Senior

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

📋 Description

• Oversee Agile delivery initiatives for Team 1, focusing on Core MIRS software functionalities.

• Facilitate various Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement sessions, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

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

• Collaborate with product owners and mission stakeholders to prioritize, refine, and prepare the backlog of tasks.

• Assist in formulating realistic sprint goals and commitments considering priorities, dependencies, capacity, and delivery risks.

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

• Recognize and escalate delivery impediments and facilitate their resolution.

• Manage inter-team dependencies involving architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, training, data, interfaces, releases, and mission stakeholders.

• Organize weekly demonstrations ensuring that capabilities are ready for Government assessment and feedback.

• Document demonstration feedback, decisions made, and subsequent updates to the backlog or action items.

• Prepare, maintain, and submit Development Sprint Plans.

• Generate Sprint Summary Reports that outline accomplishments, pending tasks, test outcomes, demonstrations, feedback, risks, dependencies, and follow-up actions.

• Track and evaluate delivery metrics such as sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time, work aging, impediments, defects, and completion of commitments.

• Utilize delivery data to spot trends, promote improvement discussions, and propose corrective actions.

• Collaborate with requirements analysts to ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are clear, testable, traceable, and ready for implementation.

• Work with developers, testers, cybersecurity teams, and release teams to support secure development, integration, testing, and deployment processes.

• Aid in backlog prioritization and the expedited handling of urgent defects or security-related changes.

• Foster communication between Team 1, other Agile teams, program leadership, and Government representatives.

• Maintain Agile boards, delivery dashboards, action logs, decision records, and other relevant program artifacts.

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

• Mentor team members and stakeholders on Agile methodologies, collaboration, transparency, accountability, and ongoing improvement.

• Provide delivery status updates, forecasts, risks, and performance data for program reporting and governance purposes.

• Contribute to the continuous enhancement of Agile delivery processes throughout the ENLIST program.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

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

• A minimum of ten years of pertinent professional experience is necessary.

• Demonstrated experience in facilitating Agile software delivery teams.

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

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

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

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

• Capability to prepare concise sprint plans, delivery summaries, metrics, status reports, and executive-level briefings.

• Ability to identify delivery risks and impediments, facilitate resolution, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.

• Strong skills in facilitation, leadership, conflict resolution, analysis, organization, and communication.

• Capacity to manage multiple priorities and uphold delivery discipline in a complex, cross-functional software environment.

• Preferred: Scrum or Agile certification, such as CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Release Train Engineer, PMI-ACP, or equivalent.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting federal or Department of Defense software development or modernization initiatives.

• Preferred: Experience leading Agile delivery for mission-critical, regulated, or high-availability information systems.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting MIRS, accession processing, military personnel processing, or similar mission workflows.

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

• Preferred: Experience in coordinating delivery across software, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, data, training, and operations teams.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar platforms.

• Preferred: Experience working within Agile, DevSecOps, or secure software development environments.

• Preferred: Understanding of requirements traceability, user acceptance testing, release management, configuration management, and CI/CD practices.

• Preferred: PMP certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time regular employment.

• Flexibility to work remotely.

• Preference for candidates located in the Chicago area.