Enterprise Agile Lead

State of Maryland • Anne Arundel, MD

5d

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Agile Lead to drive the adoption and integration of scaled agile principles across programs and projects. The ideal candidate will be methodology-agnostic, with deep experience embedding an agile culture, facilitating continuous improvement, and enabling organizations to deliver digital services effectively. This role requires a balance of Enterprise Coaching experience, technical expertise, leadership, facilitation skills, and stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment, transparency, and successful delivery. This is a contractual position, with limited benefits

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Project Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Five (5) years of Agile Coaching experience or embedding agile practices and culture across large team of teams for technical public sector programs.
• Agile frameworks and methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Lean, etc.)
• Agile Coaching, Agile ceremony facilitation (PI Planning, Retrospectives, etc.), and mentoring skills.
• SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent Project Management certification.

Nice To Haves

• SAFe expertise in establishing and launching new Agile Release Trains, including training, alignment, governance, and team formation.
• Experience in Coaching role involving information technology or cybersecurity in the public sector.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise lead for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to drive the adoption of scaling patterns, and facilitation of the enterprise-wide agile ceremonies.
• Lead, teach, and embed an agile culture across teams and programs using techniques from a wide range of agile and lean methodologies.
• Create an open and trust-based environment that fosters collaboration, transparency, and delivery focus.
• Assess team agile culture, delivery processes, and workflows to identify areas for improvement and facilitate enhancements with the appropriate support.
• Apply tools and techniques including coaching, advising, workshops, and mentoring to drive organizational and team growth.
• Engage stakeholders across all levels of the organization to ensure alignment with business and program objectives.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams, contractors, and partners across the Office of Security Management.
• Define, monitor, and maintain key metrics, requirements, agile best practices that support delivery and performance.
• Engage project management teammates with the skills to coach, mentor, and sustain agile practices independently.
• Provide executive coaching on Strategic program planning, and agile best practices.
• Delivery of Agile training for Scrum roles, SAFe practices, Agile teams, Business Owners, and stakeholders
• Serve as the SME and system owner for OSM’s agile tools (Azure DevOps\JIRA\ServiceNow), with a priority focus on integrating and automating as much of the workflow as possible.
• Define, plan, and lead ceremonies such as program increment planning and retrospectives.
• Provide scrum master support to the hiring organization’s executive.
• Provide SAFe or agile training as part of continuous education of all OSM team members.

Benefits

• Contractual employees who work for an agency and have a current employment contract of 30 or more hours a week (or on average 130 hours per month) will be eligible for subsidized health benefits coverage for themselves and their dependents.
• View rates on the Department of Budget & Management website, State Employees, Health Benefits, Contractual/Variable rates.
• Paid leave will accrue at a rate of one hour for every 30 hours worked.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees