Program Agile Lead

Job Overview

At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world’s most complex challenges. Within Space, we are seeking a talented Release Train Engineer (RTE) to join our Agile Talent Center team and facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events and processes.

• Work together with Product and Technical stakeholders to manage and optimize the flow of value through the ART.
• Serve as the primary facilitator of ART level events and processes including Value Stream Mapping, Roadmap creation, Backlog administration, PI Planning, Product Owner Sync, Scrum of Scrums, PI Review, Demonstrations, Retrospectives, and Inspect and Adapt Workshops.
• Ensure work is clearly defined at the Epic and Feature levels including clear Descriptions, Acceptance Criteria, and Business Value statements.
• Track that body of work against customer delivery milestones and products.
• Serve as the primary Agile coach for the ART, working with business owners, stakeholders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Kanban leads, and Team members to ensure the processes and practices of the program align with the purposes and desired business and mission outcomes of Agile/Dev Sec Ops  principles.
• Throughout each PI, oversee and assist with planning and tracking the implementation of Features including dependency and risk management, escalation and tracking of impediments, resource management prioritization, and alignment of work with Earned Value Management (EVM) constructs.
• Establish and track key ART level metrics in addition to EVM, regularly communicate these metrics to program/technical key team members and relevant stakeholders.
• Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering.
• Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure program implementation and alignment.
• Improve the flow of value through Value Streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with Dev Sec Ops  and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• Facilitate Regular System Demos that show Acceptance Criteria has been met and are a vehicle for selling off Features to Stakeholders.
• Assess the Agility level of the ART and facilitate improvement including re training and skills path guidance aligned with Lockheed Martin training opportunities.

• Experience supporting Agile teams and dependencies in an Enterprise organization using SAFe, LeSS, DAD, Nexus, or similar scaled Agile framework.
• Experience working with Agile tools e.g. Jira, Agile Central (Rally), or Agility (Version One) as an Admin or Super User.
• Industry recognized Agile certification (Scaled Agile, Scrum.org, Scrum, Inc., or Scrum Alliance).
• Experience with large scale, complex missile or space systems including familiarity with products, designs, program processes, subcontractor teams.
• Ability to lead multi-functional teams and lead multiple teams to communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals.
• Experience driving continuous improvement and common process across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience in the definition, collection, analysis, and corrective and preventative action relative to Agile performance metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• System Lifecycle experience with Engineering processes and reviews.
• Experience with DoD Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and Agile programs.
• Experience planning, estimating, and tracking Agile team throughput and performance.
• Experience developing business cases and measuring relevant outcomes.
• Experience collaborating with, communicating with, and coaching senior organizational leadership.
• Broad experience of Systems Engineering life cycle process and tools.

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 – 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.