Agile Execution Lead
About The Position
Leidos is seeking an Agile Execution Lead to provide team leadership, Agile execution oversight, and process coordination supporting United States Air Force Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) capability development. The role manages and guides Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers supporting cross-functional engineering, software development, cybersecurity, and technical integration teams. It establishes consistent Agile execution practices, improves delivery predictability, and keeps teams aligned with government priorities, program objectives, and delivery commitments. This hands-on leadership position combines personnel management, Agile execution, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will apply a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience in complex technical development environments while coordinating across government and contractor organizations. The position supports Agile planning and execution across multiple teams, maintains execution visibility through Jira and reporting, resolves impediments and dependencies, and recommends practical improvements without adding unnecessary administrative overhead or process complexity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Management, Project Management, or a related discipline, with 12 or more years of relevant professional experience; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- At least 6 years of experience leading Scrum Masters, Agile practitioners, or cross-functional technical teams.
- Experience supporting Agile software development, systems engineering, cybersecurity, or comparable technical environments.
- Working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Agile planning, iterative development, and continuous improvement.
- Experience coordinating sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, and PI planning across multiple teams.
- Strong Jira and Confluence skills, including boards, workflows, dashboards, and reporting.
- Ability to assess team capacity, dependencies, performance, and impediments.
- Demonstrated personnel leadership, communication, and government and technical stakeholder engagement skills.
- Active Secret security clearance, with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI within 90 days.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, mentor, and provide daily execution oversight for a team of Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers supporting Air Force DCO development activities.
- Establish roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and accountability standards for Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers.
- Ensure assigned development teams receive effective facilitation, impediment resolution, backlog readiness coordination, and execution tracking.
- Assess personnel workload, team assignments, and support capacity to align resources with program priorities.
- Conduct team engagements, performance assessments, and professional development activities, and identify cross-training opportunities.
- Coordinate Agile execution across development teams in alignment with government priorities, milestones, and capability objectives.
- Lead Scrum Master preparation and support for PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other established ceremonies.
- Ensure planning events address refined work, dependencies, risks, and realistic commitments.
- Support integrated PI objectives, capacity assessments, execution commitments, and delivery forecasts.
- Coordinate with RTEs, Product Owners, Technical Leads, and engineering leadership to resolve cross-team dependencies.
- Monitor sprint and PI performance; support PI closeout, incomplete-work reconciliation, lessons learned, and preparation for subsequent increments.
- Oversee Scrum Master responsibilities for Jira work management, ticket accuracy, sprint tracking, and backlog organization.
- Set expectations for Jira hygiene, including work status, ownership, acceptance criteria, dependencies, estimated completion dates, and progress updates.
- Coordinate with Product Owners and engineering leads to correct outdated or inconsistent execution information.
- Support dashboards and reports on sprint and PI progress, planned versus completed work, throughput, cycle time, impediments, and capacity where applicable.
- Identify discrepancies between reported progress and actual execution and coordinate corrective actions.
- Serve as the primary coordination point for the Scrum Master organization with government leadership, RTEs, Product Owners, engineering teams, and contractors.
- Facilitate collaboration across software development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, systems engineering, testing, and integration teams.
- Assess how evolving priorities affect capacity, sprint commitments, and delivery timelines.
- Elevate significant impediments and resource constraints through established leadership channels.
- Support government execution reviews with accurate information on commitments, performance, risks, and dependencies.
- Maintain boundaries between Agile facilitation, product prioritization authority, and technical engineering decisions.
- Monitor team health and performance to identify delivery risks, recurring impediments, and potential impacts to capability delivery.
- Establish consistent tracking, escalation, and resolution of impediments that extend beyond individual teams.
- Evaluate capacity, workload, and competing priorities to support realistic commitments.
- Coordinate dependency resolution with RTEs, Product Owners, and technical leadership.
- Reinforce active impediment resolution, accountability for agreed actions, and timely communication of execution concerns.
- Assess Agile effectiveness and identify targeted coaching, training, and process improvements.
- Set consistent Scrum Master performance expectations for facilitation, engagement, impediment management, and execution visibility.
- Partner with Agile Coaches to strengthen team-level adoption and execution discipline.
- Support integration of Agile planning with integrated schedules, capability roadmaps, and engineering milestones.
- Recommend practical improvements to Agile support effectiveness across DCO development.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
