Senior SAFe Agile Lead for Federal Data Modernization

eSimplicity; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 108,400 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) retirement benefits

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

eSimplicity seeks a Principal Agile Lead to guide the scaled agile delivery for a large federal data and analytics modernization program. The role coordinates PI Planning, sprint cadences, cross-team forums, and ensures visibility of priorities, risks, and dependencies across delivery streams.

Work with product, architecture, data, security, analytics, and user success leaders to align backlogs with objectives, drive metrics, and support continuous improvement in a remote Eastern-time-zone

Qualifications

• 7+ years in IT consulting with agile PM experience in the federal government.
• Public trust clearance required; U.S. citizen or eligible for clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Lead SAFe Agile Release Train delivery in complex tech/data/cloud environments.
• Plan PI Planning, sprint cadences, synchronization, risk and dependency management.
• Use agile work management and documentation tools for government stakeholders.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, architecture, data, security, and operations.
• Know delivery metrics and agile reporting for leadership visibility.
• Support definition-of-done, testing cadence, release and operational readiness.
• Comply with security, privacy, accessibility and data-handling rules.

Responsibilities

• Lead the scaled agile delivery model across the program and manage PI Planning.
• Ensure teams participate in two-week sprints, quarterly planning, and backlog refinement.
• Coordinate with leaders to align backlogs with objectives and roadmaps.
• Maintain visibility into risks, delivery health, and dependencies.
• Report deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and other metrics.
• Facilitate demonstrations of progress including dashboards and APIs.
• Promote blameless retrospectives and continuous improvement.
• Lead agile coordination across delivery workstreams.

Skills

SAFe Agile Release Train

PI Planning

Agile project management

Cross-team coordination

Delivery metrics

Security clearance

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation tools

Cloud / data platforms

Agile reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Work management tools

Documentation tools

Source control

Dashboarding tools

Job description

eSimplicity seeks a Principal Agile Lead to guide the scaled agile delivery for a large federal data and analytics modernization program. The role coordinates PI Planning, sprint cadences, cross-team forums, and ensures visibility of priorities, risks, and dependencies across delivery streams.

Work with product, architecture, data, security, analytics, and user success leaders to align backlogs with objectives, drive metrics, and support continuous improvement in a remote Eastern-time-zone