Senior Safe Agile Coach|Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant

Senior Safe Agile Coach / Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC) - Lead the sustainment of a large-scale, multi-ART software program and teach SAFe courses.

• Multi-ART Synchronization:
  Orchestrate coordination of three ARTs, managing inter-train dependencies and ensuring consistent application of SAFe principles.
• PI Planning Leadership:
  Facilitate and continuously improve PI Planning events across multiple ARTs, ensuring alignment of vision, backlogs, dependencies, and PI objectives.
• Lead large-scale Program Increment Planning events, aligning all team members toward a unified vision and PI objectives.
• Safe Training and Enablement:
  Deliver and support SAFe training (Leading SAFe, SAFe for Teams, PO/PM) to leaders and teams, enabling certification readiness.
• Stakeholder Mentorship:
  Educate company, program, and customer leads and team members on mapping SAFe milestones to program requirements.
• Sustainment & Dev Sec Ops  Strategy:
  Guide integration of automated testing and Dev Sec Ops  into long-term sustainment workflows to reduce technical debt.
• Agile Center of Excellence:
  Lead Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) to drive organizational maturity, conduct maturity assessments, and foster continuous improvement.
• Metrics, Flow, and Continuous Improvement:
  Implement and coach SAFe flow metrics, including Flow Velocity, Flow Time, Predictability, and Quality.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and at least 12 years of relevant work experience (or equivalent experience).
• Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC) certification required.
• At least 5 years of full‑time experience as an STE, RTE, or Release Manager on a large‑scale technical program; or at least 10 years of full‑time experience as a Scrum Master in software delivery.
• At least 3 years of experience in multi‑ART / Solution Train environments.
• Recent experience teaching SAFe courses and enabling certification.
• Demonstrated experience applying SAFe as the agile development methodology on a large‑scale technical program.
• Experience with large, complex systems (software + hardware integration).
• Experience working with multi‑disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience affecting change in organizations working toward agile adoption.
• Experience briefing leadership/customers on key status and project progression.
• Experience communicating with and briefing status to external stakeholders, including customer/government representatives.
• Proficiency with Agile tools (Jira, Version One, Rally, IBM ELM, etc.).
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment across diverse systems and groups.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must have the ability to manage time extremely well and quickly sense when an issue requires attention or triage.
• Clearance Required:
  
  Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Current full‑time Agile Coaching experience on a large, technical software program.
• Significant technology experience in software development, test, or systems engineering.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle – developer, tester, analyst, product manager, etc.
• Experience applying test automation, test‑driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built‑in quality.
• Experience using Kanban to improve flow on support teams.

• Pay Range: $ – $ (subject to qualifications and experience).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.