The incumbent provides servant leadership to agile projects and products of highly complex nature. Leveraging a deep project management foundation coupled with agile behaviors and mindset, the incumbent works across Agile teams and provide key facilitation and leadership to help project and product teams execute on their objectives with a focus on delivering business value.

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Project Planning, and Management: Coordinating and leading Agile team deliverables, may work at the Epic or Feature Level. These are large, complex enterprise-level initiatives that may consist of multiple Agile and non-Agile teams and/or vendors which may require integration with other activities outside the scope of the Agile teams.
2. Product Manager and Owner Support: Supporting the Product Manager and Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to identify dependencies to help remove impediments for the team to deliver value.
3. Understands office, department, and Judiciary strategy and operating objectives, including their linkages to related areas.
4. Demonstrates understanding of the business value of the project and its broader impact on programs, initiatives, and the enterprise.
5. Actively manages stakeholder partnerships and mitigates risks.
6. Support the Team: Promoting empowerment of the team to help ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and is empowered to make meaningful contributions, and encouraging a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team
7. Participates actively in Agile program level ceremonies and supports the team in identifying and coordination of dependencies to ensure timely completion of work items.
8. Is familiar with the scope and objectives of the desired outcome, as well as the role and function of each team member, in order to effectively guide the activities of the team.
9. Demonstrates technical acumen as a vested participant within the product development process. Partners with development, testing, and production release teams to understand issues, remove impediments, and resolves issues.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
5. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
6. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
7. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience, which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience must demonstrate ALL areas defined below:

1. Implementing information technology projects using Agile methodologies.
2. Working as a Project Manager managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams.

Be clear and specific when describing your work history in the resume. Human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.

Applicants with the following certifications/experiences are highly desirable:

Project Management Institute Certification (PMP)
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Certification
One or more Agile Certification such as CSM, CSC, or CSP
Six Sigma Certification
SAFe Agilist (SA) Certification
SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) Certification
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Certification

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement.

You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.