Agile Project Manager

$112,420 - $191,070/Yr

BAE Systems - Rockville, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Rockville, MD

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Agile Project Manager at BAE Systems will play a crucial role in supporting the US Navy's Strategic Systems Program (SSP) by applying agile methodologies to enhance system design and development efforts. This position involves acting as a Scrum Master and Agile champion, facilitating collaboration among multiple teams, and ensuring project deliverables are met on time and within budget. The Agile PM will also mentor teams, promote continuous improvement, and communicate effectively with stakeholders to align project goals with customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Utilize agile methodology values, principles, and practices to effectively plan, manage, and deliver solutions and new capabilities.
• Schedule and lead PI Planning, Backlog Refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, collaborating with all teams involved to ensure deliverables are prioritized and met.
• Collect and monitor metrics and trends using Jira and/or Confluence.
• Effectively and accurately communicate with the customer, team members and internal leadership on status, risks, and issues.
• Perform as a Servant Leader to identify and resolve impediments, finding creative ways to solve problems.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration, while managing team capacity.
• Ensure that goals, scope, and product backlog items are understood and can be fulfilled by the team.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and feedback sessions.
• Ability to adapt to quickly to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
• Ability to anticipate the customer’s needs and work to exceed their expectations.
• Require little to no supervision proactive approach to issue identification and resolution.
• Train, mentor, and support teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and at least six years of related/relevant work experience as an agile project manager/scrum master, preferably in a Scrum of Scrums environment or Master's Degree and at least 4 years of related/relevant work experience as a scrum master, preferably in a Scrum of Scrums environment.
• Scrum Master certification from Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org and/or Agile PM certification from PMI.
• Strong knowledge and experience of Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Jira.
• Experience transitioning organizations to agile from typical waterfall methodology.
• Experience implementing Agile principles and practices within non-software development projects.
• Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP certification
• Scrum Professional or Agile Coach certification
• JQL/Jira Administration
• Experience with DoD or Federal government environments
• Systems Engineering or Digital Modeling experience
• Knowledge of MBSE modeling languages, frameworks, and tools such as SysML, DoDAF, UML, Cameo
• INCOSE and/or OCSMP Certification

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Legal plan
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Military leave
• Bereavement leave
• Federal and state sick leave
• Company recognition program for monetary or non-monetary awards