Agile Delivery Lead

Are you passionate about technology & delivering value to users while guiding Agile (or DevOps) team(s) as a hands-on servant leader?

Do you enjoy serving as a hands-on scrum master and coach who helps your team experiment and fearlessly invite feedback for continuous improvement? If so, you may be a good fit our team of change agents in a mission critical organization.

 

Description
C3EL is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master with significant Agile Coaching skills to serve in a change leadership role supporting USCENTCOM. This is *not* a PM role. This person will not work alone! They'll enjoy collaborating with a team of mission motivated agile change agents. This leader will embed daily with Scrum and Kanban delivery teams to change culture so they benefit from Agile and DevOps values, principles & practices to deliver on the mission. To succeed they must have deep hands-on knowledge of agile methods, be humble, be mission driven, able to influence culture change and genuinely curious about the team's technology. 

The agile delivery lead is a hands-on facilitator, servant leader, coach and teacher who is fulfilled by helping teams, the larger organization and executive leadership achieve mission outcomes. This is a rare opportunity to work side-by-side with other cleared agile enthusiasts as we learn from each other and leverage our collective experience to do the valuable work of maximizing team and organizational performance for a mission you/we believe in.

Additional Roles/Responsibilities

• Serve as Teams' Scrum Master (Facilitating ceremonies, coaching the Product Owner and team etc.) 
  Maintain outstanding working relationships with product owners, other teams, and stakeholders. 
• Identify and remove impediments that limit team productivity and quality 
• Provide agile and other options to improve, innovate, and successfully deliver value. 
• Due to the size and stage of this cultural and logistical transition, this person will be expected to consult with other teams to learn and share learning across the organization. 
• Collaborate with agile transition team of other scrum masters / delivery leads, experienced coaches and those facilitating agility and culture change.
• Over time, after setting up his/her first team successfully, the agile/devops delivery lead will be expected to inspire another person to take on the role to get them running smoothly on their own and then embed with new teams
• Work together to figure out how to help dedicated and matrixed system engineers and infrastructure technologists successfully deliver significant infrastructure change in a large-scale government enterprise environment.
• Help the team and organization create and utilize appropriate information radiators (Proficiency with Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tracking tools i.e. Azure DevOps / ADO is an advantage)
• Schedule and facilitate agile activities: scrum events, meetings, work sessions, decision-making process, help resolve conflicts and issues.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret Clearance required, with the ability to attain a Top Secret Clearance
• Must be a U.S Citizen 
• Available to work full time in Tampa, Florida
• Bachelor’s degree & 5+ years of experience. Years of experience will also be considered in lieu of degree
• Three years or more of demonstrated experience coaching agile, scrum and/or DevOps.
• Experience with Lean, Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps and possibly Design Thinking
• Continual direct, timely oral and written communication at the executive level - aligning goals and expectations
• Proven background helping product owners and development teams optimize flow of value (or software) delivery

Preferred:

• Proficient with Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tracking tools i.e. Azure DevOps / ADO
• Encourage and guide product owners (customers) to help them do the following: review and write stories, engage directly with the team, answer questions which remove impediments and bring other users or stakeholders to demos for feedback.
• Experience helping leaders shift from command and control progress reporting approach to a flexible, outcomes focuses mindset.