Key skills
JiraConfluenceAgileScrumSDLCLeadershipProject ManagementMentoringCommunication
About this role
CACI is a company dedicated to ensuring the safety of the nation and is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager with Agile experience to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The role involves leading a team in delivering cloud infrastructure products and services while implementing and improving SAFe Agile practices.
Responsibilities:
- Support the team in achieving their daily, sprint, and PI goals and deliverables
- Implement, enforce, and continually improve SAFe Agile & Scrum practices
- Provide mentoring and training for the team on SAFe Agile processes, methods, and practices
- Serve as a liaison to the CACI and Government leadership teams
- Proactively find opportunities to use process improvement and re-engineering methodologies to facilitate improvements to team processes
- Coaching, leading, facilitating meetings
- Holding the team accountable & being accountable for the SAFe Agile process and the delivered products and services
- Facilitate positive team dynamics to help maximize team performance
- Identify and remove road blocks to help focus the team on deliverables
- Experience in managing SME’s and Architects with minimal supervision
- Lead, direct, and review the team’s work
- Assist team on policy, process, implementation of strategic initiatives, and execution of day-to-day deliverables
Requirements:
- Ability to attain DHS EOD
- BS + 10 years of applicable experience, AA + 12 years of applicable experience, or 16 years of experience
- Advanced Experience using Jira & Confluence
- Experience participating in a high-performing, highly engaged SCRUM team
- Solid experience in incremental projects of varying workstreams using a SAFe Agile approach (e.g., infrastructure, migrations, ITSM, etc.)
- Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of elements of the SDLC and SELC
- SAFe certified Scrum Master
- PMP certifications
- Experience leading Agile teams
- Experience with various Project Management methodologies
- Experience supporting modernization, cloud, and infrastructure initiatives
- Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative products and services