Enterprise Agility Leader

enterprise agility leader - fleet ecosystem (felt.)

• washington, district of columbia
• posted today

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summary

• $70 - $80 per hour

• contract

• bachelor degree

category computer and mathematical occupations

reference 1366391

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job summary

The Enterprise Agility Leader serves as the primary strategic coach, facilitator, and operating model steward for the Fleet Ecosystem Leadership Team (FELT)-a critical oversight body sitting above individual Fleet portfolios to align overarching vision with measurable execution. Working as an influential peer among cross-functional leaders in Product, Architecture, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Operations Technology, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Field Operations, this role drives operating model evolution, cross-portfolio synchronization, and strategy-to-execution cadence. The ideal leader bridges high-level strategic planning with pragmatic portfolio governance, resolving systemic dependencies and fostering shared accountability across large, highly regulated enterprise operations.

location: Washington, Washington, D.C. job type: Contract salary: $70 - 80 per hour work hours: 9am to 5pm education: Bachelors

responsibilities

• Operating Model Stewardship: Define, evolve, and sustain the cross-portfolio Fleet operating model, embedding consistent ways of working, collaborative decision-making, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.

• Executive & Leadership Team Facilitation: Facilitate high-impact alignment sessions, strategic planning forums, and retrospectives for the FELT, ensuring active collaboration among Product, Architecture, SRE, Tech, and OCM leaders.

• Strategy-to-Execution Alignment: Lead the translation of enterprise-level Fleet roadmaps, strategic outcomes, and funding priorities into coordinated execution backlogs across multiple delivery portfolios.

• Portfolio Flow & Dependency Management: Manage organizational cadences, monitor flow across value streams, eliminate systemic delivery bottlenecks, and maintain clear cross-portfolio dependency mapping using Jira Align and modern agility tooling.

• Governance & Performance Visibility: Establish objective health assessments, execution metrics, and governance forums to provide executive transparency into team performance, delivery commitments, and organizational risks.

• Enterprise Coaching & Capability Building: Coach senior leaders, program teams, and delivery partners on flow metrics, capacity planning, lean-agile portfolio practices, and change enablement in complex operating environments.

qualifications

• Extensive Enterprise Coaching: 8+ years of experience leading complex enterprise agile modernizations, operating model transformations, and value stream enablements across large-scale, highly regulated organizations.

• Domain & Technical Background: 6+ years of foundational experience working in IT, systems engineering, operations technology, or related enterprise delivery disciplines.

• Hybrid Lifecycle Expertise: Proven track record guiding organizations through transitions from traditional Waterfall/Project Management Lifecycles (PMLC) to Lean-Agile and Agile Product Delivery models.

• Framework Mastery: Deep, practical command of enterprise scaling frameworks and methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps, Lean Portfolio Management), with the ability to balance framework theory with pragmatic business needs.

• Certifications: Active SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification (SAFe 6.0 preferred) or equivalent advanced enterprise-level coaching credentials.

• Tooling Proficiency: Direct hands-on experience utilizing enterprise agile management suites, specifically Jira Align, Jira Software, Confluence, and AgilityInsights (or comparable analytics tools).

• Executive Presence: Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and facilitation skills, capable of influencing Director- and VP-level stakeholders to drive consensus and strategic accountability.

• Travel & Working

Requirements

• Ability to participate actively in virtual collaboration environments (camera-on culture) and travel quarterly along the Northeast corridor for in-person PI Planning and executive leadership alignment events.

skills

• Agile,agile management,virtual collaboration,Confluence,DevSecOps,Jira Align,Jira,Scrum,SPC,systems engineering,agility,Exceptional communication,Leadership,Executive Presence,Architecture,backlogs,continuous improvement,business needs,capacity planning,OCM,change enablement,Dependency Management,facilitation skills,Governance,collaborative decision-making,health assessments,Kanban,lean-agile,Coaching,influencing,metrics,Operating Model,Project Management,Lean Portfolio Management,risks,stakeholder engagement,strategic planning,tooling

• Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

• This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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