Join the Strategic Innovation Group in Reston, VA as an Senior Agile and Technology Advisor supporting exciting research and development efforts across Peraton in areas such as communications, space, cybersecurity, defense, health, and mobile. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing and developing complex technical solutions while leading Agile methodologies to drive innovation and efficiency. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, supportive environment that allows you to grow your skills and your career while building experience in a variety of different domains and value streams. As part of the Emerging Technologies and Solutions team, you will contribute your technical expertise and experience to review and provide critical analysis of capabilities while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet mission requirements and align with our strategic goals.

About You

• You want to make tomorrow better than today with user centric design and development.
• You have an insatiable curiosity of technology and advancing the state of the art.
• You have a passion for high-speed and highly automated security posture management, and you care about risk management over compliance.
• You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time
• You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
• You help ensure project success and client satisfaction.
• You enjoy collaborative teams and pairing with team members, as well as counterparts from your organization along with members of other firms or partners.
• You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders.
• You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
• You are a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.
• You enjoy cultivating others and functioning in a servant leader capacity.
• Preference for candidates located in or near Reston, VA.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Design, develop, maintain, and document solution architectures, ensuring traceability to the Enterprise Architecture and requirements
• Conduct analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems, reviewing system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations
• Develop proposed changes to the solutions architecture based on analysis of requirements and emerging technologies
• Review and refine system architecture and design, driving the operationalization of new technologies into repeatable and sustainable capabilities
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, guiding them toward developing reusable service components and integrated design patterns
• Coach lean-agile best practices to minimize waste while maximizing the value of delivered capabilities
• Elicit and document requirements via interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and workflow analysis
• Conduct systems analysis to determine data needs and provide technical recommendations
• Provide support to the Technical Director and Senior Leadership, coordinating across teams to facilitate synergy and success in research projects
• Develop and deliver working-level and senior leadership briefs

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with a Bachelors, 6 years with a Masters, or 3 years with a Ph.D. with at least 3 years of hands-on experience in Agile methodologies including experience with SAFe.
• Familiarity with Agile development tools, such as GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, and/or Artifactory.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and related tools and languages.
• Experience coaching teams in lean-agile best practices.
• Strong leadership and technical background that enables collaborative relationships at all levels of engineering and management.
• Ability to integrate complex technical insights into comprehensive architectural plans, while efficiently resolving project impediments.
• Ability to analyze complex information, identify trends, and propose solutions that align with business strategies.
• Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or similar Agile certifications.
• Proven history in architecting and implementing enterprise solutions via Enterprise Architecture principles and frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Existing security clearance.

Location:

• This is a hybrid position with occasional telework allowed - strong preference for candidates local to Reston, VA with the flexibility to come on-site as needed.