Expert Systems Engineer - Agile Delivery & Jira Administration with Security Clearance

Agile Process Ownership & Team Enablement

• Own and support the Agile delivery process across customer teams to ensure Agile practices are understood, consistently applied, and effective.
• Guide teams in working through iterative and incremental delivery practices while promoting continuous improvement.
• Coach team members on Agile principles, processes, roles, and best practices.
• Evaluate team processes and recommend improvements that increase efficiency, transparency, collaboration, and delivery effectiveness.
• Foster an environment of open communication, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Facilitate communication and assist with conflict resolution to help teams remain aligned and productive.

Scrum & Agile Event Facilitation Own, facilitate, and manage key Scrum and Agile events to ensure meetings are structured, productive, and focused on delivery outcomes, including:

• Daily Stand-Ups: Facilitate team synchronization, maintain communication flow, identify blockers, and promote accountability.
• Sprint Planning: Support teams in defining achievable sprint goals, prioritizing work, and establishing realistic commitments.
• Sprint Reviews: Coordinate demonstrations and reviews of completed work and facilitate stakeholder feedback.
• Program Increment (PI) Planning: Support the development, alignment, and prioritization of team objectives and goals for quarterly Program Increments.
• Sprint Retrospectives: Facilitate team reflection, identify lessons learned, and develop actionable improvements for future sprints.

Impediment, Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify, track, escalate, and assist with resolving impediments that may affect team delivery.
• Address delivery challenges including unclear requirements, application or tool issues, process constraints, and cross-team dependencies.
• Coordinate with technical leads, Product Owners, stakeholders, and other Points of Contact (POCs) to communicate and resolve dependencies.
• Help shield delivery teams from unnecessary distractions so they can remain focused on sprint commitments and program objectives.
• Facilitate visibility and communication of risks, dependencies, and issues across teams and stakeholders.
• Support teams in developing mitigation strategies for risks and delivery constraints.

Jira Administration & Management Administer, configure, develop, and maintain Jira capabilities supporting Agile delivery and program management. Responsibilities include:

• Develop, configure, and maintain Jira boards supporting team and program-level Agile activities.
• Create, manage, organize, and maintain Jira work items, including:
• Epics
• Stories
• Dependencies
• Risks
• MVIs
• Tasks and other applicable work-item types
• Develop and maintain Jira dashboards that provide actionable visibility into team and program performance.
• Create and manage dashboard designs, reports, gadgets, individual and shared filters, and appropriate data access.
• Develop and maintain Jira Plans to support program-level planning, scheduling, dependency management, and roadmap visibility.
• Configure and manage filters and data views to support different users, teams, and stakeholders.
• Maintain Jira data quality and promote consistent use of Jira across teams.
• Support users with Jira functionality, configuration, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Identify opportunities to improve Jira configurations and processes to better support Agile delivery and customer requirements.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Support

• Serve as a liaison among engineering teams, Product Owners, program leadership, stakeholders, and other customer representatives.
• Promote transparency by ensuring relevant project, sprint, risk, dependency, and delivery information is visible and accessible to appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate across teams to address dependencies and maintain alignment with broader program objectives.
• Use Confluence to support team documentation, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and Agile processes. Qualifications
• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph with this Customer
• 10+ years of relevant experience in a systems engineering role
• Agile software development and delivery methodologies
• Scrum and scaled Agile environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Sprint and Program Increment planning
• Agile coaching and team facilitation
• Risk, issue, impediment, and dependency management
• Jira administration and configuration
• Jira Boards, Dashboards, Plans, filters, and reporting
• Confluence administration and collaboration
• Cross-functional and cross-team coordination
• Continuous process improvement
• Systems engineering concepts and practices
• AWS functionality and cloud-based environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple Agile teams within a complex technical or systems engineering environment.
• Demonstrated experience administering and configuring Jira for team and program-level Agile delivery.
• Experience supporting SAFe Program Increment planning and execution.
• Strong understanding of Agile metrics, reporting, dashboards, and delivery tracking.
• Experience coordinating technical dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to translate customer and program requirements into actionable Agile work.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, program leadership, and customer stakeholders.
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence, AWS, and related engineering and collaboration tools.