IT Analyst​/Agile Lead

Location: Amarillo, TX - Pantex Plant

Job Title: IT Analyst/Agile Lead

Career Level From: Associate

Career Level To: Senior Associate

Organization: Mission Systems )

Job Specialty: System Development

A career at Pantex can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on our nation. We recognize that excellent employees are absolutely critical for mission success. We are seeking an experienced Information Technology (IT) Analyst to help enhance and optimize our mission-critical systems. We are looking for a proven leader with demonstrated success in technical design, application development, and implementation of software solutions!

Primary duties include coordinating software development projects and leading agile teams. You will work closely with project shareholders to scope, estimate, design, and deliver high-quality software solutions. You will also help evaluate current-state systems and processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and collaborate with leadership to enact meaningful change.

Additional duties may include collaboration with external stakeholders across the Nuclear Security Enterprise, developing technical documentation and instructions.

• Lead teams and technical projects through effective communication with peers, customers, and management.
• Interface with key technical and business stakeholders (such as functional/business team members, project management, enterprise architects, system engineers, and application developers) to design and develop software solutions.
• Establish program and project-level milestones, provide status and deliver briefings to leadership.
• Develop and maintain multi-year project proposals and budgets.
• Ensure adherence to defined project management policies, change management guidelines, cyber security requirements and software quality assurance processes.
• Interface with IT project management to deliver solutions on schedule and within budget.
• Demonstrate innovation when designing solutions to solve complex problems.
• Ensure solutions are well-engineered, efficient, operable, and maintainable.
• Guide and develop technical and capability road maps.
• Represent technical and business interests at an Enterprise level.
• Monitor current and future trends in technology to the benefit of the organizational project and production systems service goals.
• Facilitate Agile Software Development Practices
• Organize and facilitate agile activities including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions.
• Ensure that all meetings are positive, productive, stay on topic, and are kept within the timebox.
• Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog.
• Effectively manage user story estimation and forecasting.
• Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices.
• Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress.
• Utilize team feedback and metrics (e.g., quality, delivery, cadence, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve.
• Coach the team to improve collaboration and self-management, promoting healthy interactions both within the team and with external stakeholders.
• Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g. Azure Dev Ops, JIRA, Confluence, Rally).

• Bachelor's degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline.
• Master's degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline.
• OR Applicants without a bachelor's degree may be considered based on a combination of at least 8 years of completed education and/or relevant experience.

Not applicable.

• Strong communication and team work.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leading in a team environment.
• Able to relate to and establish strong working relationships with stakeholders outside of IT.
• Coaching skills and ability to motivate teams.
• Strong communication and…