IT AnalystAgile Lead 16266

What Youll Do

A career at Pantex can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on our nation. We recognize that excellent employees are absolutely critical for mission success. We are seeking an experienced IT Analyst to help enhance and optimize our missioncritical systems. We are looking for a proven leader with demonstrated success in technical design application development and implementation of software solutions!

Specific Job Responsibilities
Primary duties include coordinating software development projects and leading agile teams. You will work closely with project shareholders to scope estimate design and deliver highquality software solutions. You will also help evaluate currentstate systems and processes identify opportunities for improvement and collaborate with leadership to enact meaningful change.
Additional duties may include collaboration with external stakeholders across the Nuclear Security Enterprise developing technical documentation and instructions.

Core Responsibilities include:
Lead teams and technical projects through effective communication with peers customers and management.
o Interface with key technical and business stakeholders (such as functional/business team members project management enterprise architects system engineers and application developers) to design and develop software solutions.
o Establish program and projectlevel milestones provide status and deliver briefings to leadership.
o Develop and maintain multiyear project proposals and budgets.
o Ensure adherence to defined project management policies change management guidelines cyber security requirements and software quality assurance processes.
o Interface with IT project management to deliver solutions on schedule and within budget.
Demonstrate innovation when designing solutions to solve complex problems.
o Ensure solutions are wellengineered efficient operable and maintainable.
o Guide and develop technical and capability road maps.
o Represent technical and business interests at an Enterprise level.
o Monitor current and future trends in technology to the benefit of the organizational project and production systems service goals.
Facilitate Agile Software Development Practices
o Organize and facilitate agile activities including daily standup meetings sprint reviews retrospectives sprint and release planning and product backlog refinement sessions.
o Ensure that all meetings are positive productive stay on topic and are kept within the timebox.
o Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog.
o Effectively manage user story estimation and forecasting.
o Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards tools and best practices.
o Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress.
o Utilize team feedback and metrics (e.g. quality delivery cadence etc. to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve.
o Coach the team to improve collaboration and selfmanagement promoting healthy interactions both within the team and with external stakeholders.
o Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g. Azure DevOps JIRA Confluence Rally).

What You Can Expect

Minimum Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering/science discipline: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience. Typical engineering/science experience ranging from 3 to 7 years.
• OR Masters degree inengineering/science discipline.
• Ten or more years of relevant education training and/or progressive experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years of experience for this posting.

Preferred Job Requirements

Strong communication and team work.
o Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
o Able to communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
o Leading in a team environment.
o Able to relate to and establish strong working relationships with stakeholders outside of IT.
o Coaching skills and ability to motivate teams.
o Strong communication and presentation skills.
o Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
Experience in Business Analysis and Project Management:
o Requirements elicitation documentation and management.
o Excellent people and project management skills.
o Solution design and alternative analysis.
o Scope planning and estimating (may be informal).
o Organizational Change Management / successfully implementing change.
o Process mapping / process design.
Experience working with software development teams:
o Working in an agile team / incorporating agile practices for projects.
o Scrum master and/or product owner experience.
o Deep knowledge of agile practices frameworks and techniques.
o Experience with agile planning and development tools (e.g. JIRA Confluence Rally).

Broad knowledge of software development and related technologies/practices:
o Automation: APIs scripts workflows etcetera.
o Data: databases database design queries and analytics.
o Programming: concepts logic DevOps.
o Software life cycle: Configuration/Change Management Software Development Life Cycle ITIL.
o Software quality: user acceptance testing automated testing etcetera.
Agile scrum or project management certification preferred (e.g. CSM CSP PMP SAFe)
Background in Manufacturing Supply Chain Management Quality and/or ERP

Why Pantex

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