SAFe Implementation Specialist

Overview

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance!
Eagle One Solutions, Inc. (EOSi), a Chenega Professional Services company, is looking for a
SAFe Implementation Specialist with strong program management, product owner, and requirements-gathering
expertise to lead the assessment, planning, implementation, and continuous improvement of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Agile delivery practices within a division of a large federal IT portfolio.

This highly visible role requires a self-directed, hands-on change agent with demonstrated success transforming complex, disorganized, or underperforming delivery environments into structured, collaborative, and outcome-focused organizations. The SAFe Implementation Specialist will evaluate the division’s current operating model; tailor a pragmatic SAFe implementation to its needs; establish an effective planning and delivery cadence; and coach leaders, stakeholders, and delivery teams in sustainable Lean-Agile practices.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively challenge and support our employees in applying their knowledge

Work with the customer in implementing and maturing an Agile-at-scale operating model that aligns portfolio priorities, modernization initiatives, investment decisions, and team execution. The position will assess current practices, establish tailored SAFe and Agile processes, facilitate planning and delivery events, and develop the internal capability needed to sustain continuous improvement.

• Conduct a current-state assessment of the division’s organizational structure, people, processes, tools, governance, portfolio priorities, delivery performance, dependencies, and constraints; identify value streams, delivery bottlenecks, organizational impediments, cross-team dependencies, and opportunities to improve the flow of value.
• Develop and execute a practical, phased SAFe implementation roadmap tailored to the division’s maturity, mission, culture, delivery needs, and federal operating environment.
• Recommend an appropriate SAFe configuration, pilot scope, team structure, Agile Release Train approach, roles, ceremonies, artifacts, and governance model.
• Lead the transition from fragmented, project-centric work management to transparent, outcome-focused planning and delivery practices, and establish a sustainable implementation cadence that incorporates planning, execution, review, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Develop reusable playbooks, templates, working agreements, process maps, training materials, standard operating procedures, and related artifacts to support adoption and scalability.
• Measure implementation progress, team adoption, and delivery outcomes; use findings to refine the approach and recommend future expansion.
• Coach division leadership, Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters/Team Coaches, delivery teams, architects, Business Owners, and stakeholders on Lean-Agile principles and SAFe practices.
• Facilitate leadership alignment sessions to establish shared goals, decision rights, operating expectations, implementation priorities, and accountability; build an internal change network or Lean-Agile Center of Excellence capability to enable long-term ownership of the transformation.
• Provide practical coaching to improve backlog quality, prioritization, estimation, iteration planning, capacity planning, dependency management, risk management, delivery forecasting, and removal of organizational impediments.
• Support organizational…