Principal Agile Lead

eSimplicity

Principal Agile Lead managing scaled agile delivery for a large-scale federal program at eSimplicity. Coordinating PI Planning and cross-team collaboration to ensure project success.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $108,400 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the scaled agile delivery model across the program, including PI Planning coordination, cross-team cadence management, dependency and risk tracking, and delivery transparency to the customer.
Ensure all teams can participate fully in agile practices, including two-week sprint delivery, quarterly Program Increment planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, demos, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination forums.
Coordinate with product, architecture, engineering, data, security, AI, analytics, and user success leaders to align team backlogs with PI objectives, roadmap priorities, delivery constraints, and customer decision needs.
Maintain visibility into delivery flow, program risks, dependencies, impediments, decisions, and delivery health using customer-approved work management, documentation, collaboration, source control, and dashboarding tools.
Support routine reporting of delivery and product metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time to change, mean time to restore, change failure rate, burndown, sprint performance, PI performance, velocity, deliverable timeliness, and deliverable quality.
Facilitate regular demonstrations of working software, operational improvements, research findings, documentation improvements, dashboards, APIs, AI capabilities, and other demonstrable progress.
Promote blameless retrospectives and continuous improvement across delivery quality, service quality, collaboration, supportability, operational resilience, testing, and release readiness.
Lead agile coordination for applicable coverage areas, including cross-cutting program leadership, product management, engineering operations, architecture coordination, data operations, user success, support operations, and participation across all delivery workstreams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years in IT consulting, with significant agile project/program management experience in the federal government space.
All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Demonstrated ability to lead SAFe Agile Release Train delivery or comparable multi-team agile delivery in a complex technology, data, analytics, or cloud platform environment.
Experience planning and facilitating PI Planning, sprint cadences, cross-team synchronization, dependency management, risk tracking, demos, retrospectives, and continuous feedback loops.
Experience using agile work management and documentation tools to maintain transparent backlogs, risks, metrics, decisions, and delivery status for Government or enterprise stakeholders.
Ability to work across product, engineering, architecture, data, security, operations, user experience, and support teams to keep delivery aligned to outcomes rather than ticket volume alone.
Knowledge of delivery metrics and agile reporting practices that support leadership visibility, quality inputs, program increment tracking, and continuous improvement.
Ability to support documentation, definition-of-done, testing cadence, release readiness, and operational readiness practices across multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) retirement benefits
paid time off
paid holidays
life and disability insurance
additional wellness and employee support programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Agile MethodologiesDependency ManagementRisk TrackingBacklog RefinementSprint PlanningContinuous ImprovementOperational ReadinessTesting CadenceDocumentation PracticesDelivery Health Monitoring

Soft Skills

Cross-Team CoordinationFacilitation SkillsCollaborationLeadershipCommunication

Certifications

Public Trust Clearance