What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Coach Systems Engineer position at Sciolex Corporation?
Overview
What do you get when you bring together a team of bright individuals and place them into an environment where “work” means making a difference in the lives of people across the globe?
You get Sciolex Corporation, a fast-growing defense contractor focused on providing the U.S. Government a level of service that surpasses the epitome of excellence. Our core services include systems engineering technical advice, technical support, and administrative assistance. From our humble beginning as a small Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business in Chantilly, VA, Sciolex Corporation is now the home for over 1,000 employees across the U.S.
Over the past 18 years, Sciolex Corporation has constructed an environment that celebrates diversity and encourages a positive work/life balance, all while supporting government missions that our employees are proud to be a part of. When you work for Sciolex Corporation, you are working for a stable company that values you and is committed to ensuring you receive the utmost employee care.
Responsibilities
- 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 & Physical Requirements
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph
- Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree
- 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.
- Knowledgeable of Agile frameworks (preferably SAFe)
- Familiarity with IC and/or DoD space architectures, systems, and/or operations a PLUS!
