Senior Agilist
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Provide senior-level Agile and SAFe coaching, consultation, and implementation support across interdisciplinary VA health informatics teams. Support adoption and consistent execution of SAFe and Lean-Agile practices, including PI planning support, team ceremonies, ART-level coordination, and dependency management. Guide development of lean business cases, feature specifications, user stories, and MVP definitions while coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and clinical informaticists on roles and artifacts. Facilitate collaboration across stakeholders and use JIRA and dashboards to improve delivery predictability. Recommend process improvements for operational excellence and sustainable organizational change.
Required Qualifications
- Certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification
- 7+ years of experience leading Agile and SAFe implementations in medium-to-large organizations
- Demonstrated superior knowledge and practical experience adopting Agile across an enterprise
- Experience providing experienced consultation for large-scale implementation of Agile practices, including SAFe
- Experience coaching teams on SAFe Lean-Agile principles, Agile ceremonies, backlog management, value delivery, and continuous improvement
- Experience with JIRA, JIRA Align, or comparable Agile planning and reporting tools
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, change management, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting VA/VHA, OCI/OHI, Field Informatics Service, IHP ART, EHR modernization, clinical informatics, or federal healthcare product teams
- Experience supporting clinical informatics artifacts such as lean business cases, feature canvases, feature specifications, performance monitoring dashboards, and clinical workflow improvement products
- Experience in healthcare or healthcare technology environments, including VistA/CPRS, Oracle Health/Cerner, clinical decision support, terminology, standards, or interoperability
- Additional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), Release Train Engineer, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Product Owner/Product Manager, PMP, Prosci, CSM, or PSM
- Experience building Agile operating models, team metrics, communities of practice, playbooks, SOPs, or Agile maturity roadmaps
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