Description:
Tip – The ideal candidates will have experience with Service Now. If they have working experience with ADO that would be an added plus.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the agile release train for a given value stream and ensuring scrum team success.
- Responsible for planning and executing PI Planning, and for working with the teams to plan and execute other ART or teams level ceremonies
- Enable teams to remove impediments. Act as escalation point for impediments the team cannot remove in a timely manner
- Own escalated impediments and raise issues to leadership if they cannot be resolved in a timely manner
- Continuously work with teams and to deliver PI Objectives
- Owns the Risk, Issues, Action and Decision Register for a specific train
- Manage dependencies between Development Teams within and across Programs or Agile Release Trains
- Partner with stakeholders to identify and address staffing and tool needs
- Enable and coach teams to define capacity for PI Planning
- Develop and serve as owner of the program release communication plan; schedule and facilitate program release planning activities
- Gather and report performance information and metrics (e.g., Release burn down data, etc.)
- Update and communicate Release Plans
- Collaborate with Product Management, Systems Architects, teams as needed
- Build and maintain relationships with lines of business, teams, management, and key stakeholders
- Assist with developing and delivering training and workshops as requested
- Become an influential leader within for the team and promote Agility across Navy Federal
- Encourage teams to embrace a Lean/Agile Mindset
- Help resolve team conflicts when needed
Qualifications and Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field – or – the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Significant experience working in an agile transformation successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios
- Scrum Master and RTE Certifications with extensive experience working in a SAFe and non SAFe environment.
- 10+ years of combined experience working within Information Technology as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Scrum Master and/or Release Train Engineer
- Experience coaching agile teams and assessing their development maturity
- Experience working with tools such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, etc.
- Experience in creating reporting metrics and dashboards that illustrate the flow of value
- Experience in leading successful delivery teams
- Experience in software development managing multiple teams across a product area
- Experience as a Scrum Master or Delivery Lead in leading transformation
- Successful track record implementing Agile methodologies
- Experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors
- Experience in leading, guiding and coaching professional staff
- Ability to coach and mentor scrum teams and empower the delivery teams to embrace agility
- Ability to remove impediments that impact the team’s planned execution
- Ability to create release plans and roadmaps needed for existing product or platform release
- Advanced skill to influence, negotiate and persuade to reach agreeable exchange and positive outcomes
- Advanced skill in motivating and uplifting team members using teaching/mentoring skills
- Advanced skill building effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact
- Advanced problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
- Advanced verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
- Advanced word processing, spreadsheet, diagramming, and presentation software skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team in a matrixed environment
- Advanced skill to deliver presentations to virtual and in-person teams