Agile Team Lead

Amivero LLC; Camp Springs (MD); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amivero LLC in Camp Springs, Maryland, is looking for an Agile Team Lead to drive Agile delivery processes and support product stakeholders. The successful candidate will facilitate Agile ceremonies, coach teams, and ensure effective execution of sprints and releases.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree, SAFe certification, and a minimum of three years of experience with Agile methodologies. Join a dedicated team dedicated to reimagining government IT systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years experience facilitating Agile ceremonies.
• Experience developing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily standups and sprint planning.
• Coach development teams on Agile principles.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to align business and technical goals.

Skills

Facilitating Agile ceremonies

Agile frameworks knowledge

Jira

Confluence

Stakeholder management

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

SAFe certification

Tools

Mural

GitHub Enterprise

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Description

The Amivero Team

Amivero’s team of IT professionals delivers digital services that elevate the federal government, whether national security or improved government services. Our human-centered, data-driven approach is focused on truly understanding the environment and the challenge, and reimagining with our customer how outcomes can be achieved.

Our team of technologists leverage modern, agile methods to design and develop equitable, accessible, and innovative data and software services that impact hundreds of millions of people.

As a member of the Amivero team you will use your empathy for a customer’s situation, your passion for service, your energy for solutioning, and your bias towards action to bring modernization to very important, mission-critical, and public service government IT systems.

Special Requirements

• US Citizenship Required to obtain Public Trust
• SaFE Certification required
• Bachelor Degree +3 years of experience facilitating Agile ceremonies
• Min 3 years of experience supporting business architecture analysis, requirements management, and process improvement initiatives

The Gist.

The Agile Team Lead is responsible for facilitating Agile delivery processes, coaching teams on Agile principles and practices, supporting product and business stakeholders, and ensuring the successful execution of sprint and release objectives. The Agile Team Lead serves as a servant leader for the team, promoting continuous improvement, collaboration, transparency, and delivery excellence while supporting large-scale DevSecOps and cloud modernization initiatives.

What Your Day Might Include

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning activities.
• Partner with Product Owners to manage product backlogs, prioritize work items, refine user stories, and ensure business value is delivered through each sprint.
• Coach development teams, business stakeholders, and leadership on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Develop and maintain business process models, workflow diagrams, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements documentation.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Full Stack Engineers, Cloud Engineers, UI/UX Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical solutions.
• Support Agile scaling initiatives and promote Agile maturity across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Monitor sprint performance, team velocity, delivery metrics, risks, dependencies, and impediments to support successful program execution.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication and ensure transparency regarding project progress, priorities, and delivery timelines.
• Support release planning and DevSecOps delivery activities within cloud-based environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• SAFe certification.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement activities.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience supporting business architecture analysis, requirements management, and process improvement initiatives.
• Experience developing business process models, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, and workflow documentation.
• Experience utilizing Jira, Confluence, and Mural to support Agile planning, backlog management, team collaboration, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps delivery environments utilizing GitHub Enterprise, Harness, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Product Owners with backlog prioritization, requirements clarification, release planning, and stakeholder management.
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks, Scrum methodologies, Agile scaling practices, and continuous improvement principles.

EOE/M/F/VET/DISABLED

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Amivero complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.