Technical Agile Project Lead - Remote

Sabel Systems - Arlington, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Arlington, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Technical Agile Project Lead at Sabel Systems Technology Solutions, LLC is responsible for managing the development and execution of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in both Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial sectors. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and project management skills to lead agile teams effectively, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions. The position involves facilitating agile ceremonies, managing project timelines, and collaborating with various stakeholders to overcome challenges and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
• Manages the development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Creates or analyzes business requirements documents and project timelines
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
• Determines best approach to project execution (agile, traditional, or a mix)
• Drives team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work
• Manages project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Works with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
• Provides leadership to system analysts, system architects, and collaborates with customers to develop strategies and solutions of high business value
• Conducts postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, defines and implements improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
• Implements and supports principles, rules and processes
• Proactively identifies and eliminates impediments and facilitates flow
• Maintains team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA) to support estimates and execution
• Presents high level project readouts for senior management
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Manages other special projects as assigned
• Performs other duties as needed

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of project management/agile/development experience
• 4+ years leading Agile teams
• Familiarity with PTC ThingWorx
• Familiarity with PTC Windchill
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Strong understanding of traditional project management methods as governed by the PMI
• Possesses Agile Certification (CSM, PSM I, etc.)
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
• Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams' needs
• Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
• Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
• Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
• Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
• Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
• Understanding of programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C++, PHP, etc.)
• Understanding of form or web-based UI design
• Understanding of SQL and database design
• Understanding of REST-based web services and JSON
• Understanding of ETL, data migration, and integration
• Understanding of object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of polymorphism
• Knowledge of OData protocol
• Strong customer service skills
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Self-motivated and organized
• Ability to follow security protocol to protect sensitive data
• U.S. Citizen
• Bachelor's Degree in qualifying technical field

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Management Information Systems
• CAPM or PMP certified
• Experience with PTC ThingWorx
• Experience with PTC Windchill
• Experience with programming languages - VB, C#, C++, Java, etc.
• Experience with web development- HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS
• Experience with Power BI, Cognos, Tableau or other BI tools
• Possession of CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, or equivalent certification
• Experience with Microsoft .NET Framework

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Training opportunities
• Dynamic work environment
• Health and safety commitment
• Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability and Veterans