Agile Practice Lead Senior

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of Agile frameworks (SAFe) across multiple teams and programs.
• Coach mentor and develop Scrum Masters Product Owners and Agile team members to build a self-sustaining agile culture.
• Establish and track Agile metrics (velocity cycle time throughput quality) to assess team health and drive data-informed improvements.
• Partner with senior leadership to align Agile practices with strategic business objectives and portfolio management processes.
• Facilitate cross-team coordination dependency management and program-level ceremonies (PI Planning Scrum of Scrums retrospectives).
• Identify and remove organizational impediments to Agile adoption including process bottlenecks cultural barriers and tooling gaps.
• Define and maintain Agile governance standards including Definition of Done working agreements and release management practices.
• Drive community of practice initiatives to share knowledge patterns and lessons learned across the enterprise.
• Evaluate and recommend agile tooling solutions (e.g. Jira Azure DevOps Rally) that support team workflows and reporting needs.

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain Sensitive Compartmented Information access required.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field
• 8 years of experience with Agile
• Extensive experience leading Agile and SAFe implementations in large scale complex software development environments
• Proven ability to manage cross functional teams delivering enterprise level applications and services
• Strong understanding of software development life cycles DevOps practices and cloud based architectures
• Strong leadership communication and stakeholder engagement skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years in an Agile coaching or practice lead capacity
• Demonstrated experience scaling agile across multiple teams or an enterprise environment.
• Deep working knowledge SAFe framework
• Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) ICAgile Certified Expert (ICE-AC) or equivalent advanced agile certification preferred.
• Strong facilitation conflict resolution and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
• Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira Azure DevOps Rally or equivalent).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and Lean Portfolio Management concepts.
• Experience leading Agile transformations within the government is a plus.

The Agile Practice Lead (Senior) is responsible for driving agile transformation and maturity across the organization. This role champions agile principles coaches teams and leadership and establishes scalable frameworks that enable high-performing delivery. The ideal candidate blends deep expertise in Agile methodologies with strong leadership facilitation and organizational change management skills.

In addition the Agile Practice Lead partners with senior leadership to align Agile practices with strategic business objectives. This includes establishing governance standards facilitating cross-team coordination and building a sustainable Agile culture through coaching mentoring and community-of-practice initiatives.

This contract supports a government agencys capability to ingest process and analyze massive volumes of digital evidence into actionable intelligence. The program drives full lifecycle development from building scalable applications and forensic tools to integrating enterprise services and maintaining hybrid cloud and classified infrastructure. The work ensures users can securely access review and collaborate on evidence in real time. This strengthens national security and investigative outcomes by combining advanced analytics cloud technologies and Agile delivery to give investigators faster more reliable insight into complex digital evidence.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. Technology moving at the speed of thought embodies these principles the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health dental vision 401K life insurance short-term and long-term disability plans vacation time and holidays.

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WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Location: Clarksburg WV (100% onsite for the first 3 months with an opportunity for hybrid telecommute/onsite split after 3 months)
• Type of environment: Office
• Noise level: Medium
• Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday Friday.
• Amount of Travel: Less than 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle feel touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE

• U.S Citizenship Required
• Top Secret Clearance

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal state and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal state and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.