Senior Program Management Analyst/SAFe Scrum Master at UICGS

Overview:

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGMENT ANALYST/SAFe SCRUM MASTER (PMW220)

Bowhead is seeking a Senior Program Management Analyst/SAFe Scrum Master to provide consultative support to our senior PEO MLB leadership at the Washington Navy Yard in Washinton, D.C. for the Navy ERP+ program by leading daily standups for the solutions team. This position can be remote.

Essential duties include:

• Lead daily scrum calls with Solutions/Technical Team.
• Assist product owner in ensuring tasks and deliverables are clearly defined.
• Arrange daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Serve as an agile champion for the PMO.
• Advocate an agile culture; set up and organize communities that bring agile workflow into the program office.
• Provide knowledge transfer training to key government leaders.
• Mentor and collaborate with existing scrum teams, and deliver training classes for product owners, developers and testers as needed.
• Support the end-to-end delivery of complex system solutions, establishing and removing project constraints and handling scope in collaboration with product owners.
• Assist the Government with the preparation of documents and briefs to aid in developing an agile centric culture.
• Interact and negotiate with senior stakeholders on deliverables in support of project completion.
• Identify risks associated with dependencies and clearly communicate these risks to PMO leadership.
• Participate in an advisory role in Program Office planning meetings and strategy sessions; provide documentation as tasked. Provide strategic planning, analysis and advisory assistance to the organization in decision-making processes.

• Minimum must have a BA/BS/MS degree, with preference in IT.
• Ten (10+) or more years of professional experience.
  
• Five (5+) or more years of Agile experience in large organizations with multiple, disconnected groups throughout the organizations.
  
• SAFe Scrum master certified.
  
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – SAFe certification desired.
  
• Prefer recent experience (within past 5 years) working on Navy / DoD ERP projects.
  
• Experience leading organizational change and managing change projects.
  
• Desire change management certification.
  
• Desire BS/MS degree.
  
• Experience in the DoD requirements definition process.
  
• Experience in IT project management framework and the ability to implement them.
  
• Experience with DEVSECOPS.
  
• Ability to interact and negotiate with senior stakeholders on deliverables in support of project completion.
  
• Experience applying data management, data analysis, and data visualization.
  
• Experience in developing and delivering briefings to all levels of Government leadership.
• Experience supporting management consultation support in acquisition community within Navy or DoD environments.
• Ability to interact and negotiate with senior stakeholders on deliverables in support of project completion.
  Proficient in Microsoft applications such as Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Excellent critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Experience in developing and delivering briefings to all levels of Government leadership.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to lift up to 5 pounds
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the Secret level. US Citizenship is a requirement for Secret clearance at this location.

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