General Dynamics Information Technology

Req ID: RQ175905

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: Other

Job Family: Project/Task Management

Skills:

Agile Framework,Agile Methodology,Change Management,Strategic

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Digital Transformation Lead who will strategize, manage, and advocate for Agile development methodologies for our team. They will work with a Cloud team of various Agile maturity levels to transform the program from waterfall to Agile methodologies. The Digital Transformation Lead will be responsible for; innovating, improving, and maintaining our product roadmap and keeping us aligned with the CMS Cloud team. This individual will report to the Program Manager and support ad hoc analysis as well, drive user experience improvements, adoption of processes and assist in managing our strategic partner relationships.

Candidates must be able to communicate well with internal and external customers in both written and verbal form and be able to operate in a quick pace environment.

Successful candidates are eager to take the initiative on a very large Cloud resell program where attention to detail is crucial.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

· Champion organizational change management efforts that impact future engineering team, program operations, and service delivery within program’s teams.

· Directly support teams with Service Delivery related strategy and design, and partner with the leadership team to bring Agile methodologies to the team.

· Partner with the team to implement an effective Agile framework that covers all elements of program delivery to measure and provide insights into customer experience and bottlenecks

· Implement best practices for the Program to include ITIL, Agile, PMBOK frameworks for delivering IT Services work that include use of Jira, performance tracking, and workload prioritization of the combined teams to effectively meet customer milestones.

· Support the development of status work products, to include updating materials that showcase accurate service delivery metrics and team performance to mission outcomes.

· Constantly seek and suggest process improvement ideas and then lead the approved ideas to completion.

· Guide scrum-teams through all sprints of a program increment, removing impediments and championing the team

· Organize and facilitate sprint planning and release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other agile related events

· Track and communicate team metrics and sprint/release progress to all teams and management

· Assist the scrum team in developing and estimating user stories that are clearly articulated with well-defined acceptance criteria

· Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

· Resolve complex problems escalated by team members.

· Develop 3-year Product Roadmap

· Develop training guide and material for Team All Hands

· Coach and provide guidance to less-experienced analysts and assist with moving blockers in assigned sprints.

· Professionally present to all levels of customers clearly to help articulate the current status and field adhoc needs.

· Responding timely to all customer inquiries via Jira, Slack and email.

· Ensuring Jira tickets are updated with the proper status.

Required Skills:

· Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent experience

· 5+ years relevant experience

· Works independently under limited supervision

· Expert level experience with Microsoft Excel

Desired Skills:

· 3+ years’ experience in Jira and Confluence

· Familiarity with AWS Cloud

· Demonstrated work experience in Agile environment and understanding of Agile ceremonies and artifacts

· Preferred experience transitioning team from waterfall to Agile environment

· Agile certification preferred

· WS certification preferred

· Extensive knowledge of relevant technology or subject matter

· Effective administrative and organizational skills

· Effective communication skills

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The likely salary range for this position is $114,750 - $155,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.