Agile Team Coach

Location: Washington DC (metro accessible)

Description: 

Agile Coaches are to help teams and individuals help themselves.  Our Agile Coaches must rock at their craft.  They are able to quickly assess a team's maturity and do what it takes to help be it training, mentoring, consulting, or coaching.  Our coaches are well versed in various team and scaling frameworks but strongly favor context-based approaches for delivery.  Do you have what it takes to be one of us?

This is a contract position.

Your Will Be Accountable to Maintain Our Coaching Principles:

• Know yourself and seek self-improvement
• Be technically and tactically proficient
• Know your team and look out for their welfare
• Keep your teams informed
• Set the example
• Ensure team-desired behavioral changes are understood, actively managed, and achieved
• Train those your coaching as a team
• Make sound and timely decisions
• Develop a sense of responsibility among those you are coaching
• Employ your teams in accordance with its capabilities
• Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions

Your Primary Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the organizational journey to do more with less
• Continually assess the maturity of each team with quantitative and qualitative measures & metrics
• Continually collaborate with other coaches to establish greater learning opportunities across the organization
• Continually collaborate with other coaches to hone program-level READY WHENs and DONE WHENs
• Continually collaborate with coaches and leadership to develop learning roadmaps for roles and teams
• Continually collaborate with those serving in business roles to develop and hone roadmaps
• Continually collaborate with those serving in technical roles to help them identify ways to lean their processes
• Continually collaborate with teams so they can identify risks and quickly manage them to closure
• Continually collaborate with teams so they can identify waste and quickly work to eliminate, automate, or reduce it
• Continually collaborate with disruptiveOps's Chief Methodologist to help identify organizational behavioral patterns that may need addressing
• Help teams develop norming approaches like DONE WHENs, READY WHENs, Working Agreements, etc.
• Host "Office Hours" at least once every two weeks
• Be able to provide ad-hoc training on any related topics like Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Writing, Blockers, etc.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

To be considered for this position, please email a resume to careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Scrum Master

Location: Washington DC (metro accessible)

Description: 

Scrum Master are to help their team(s) help themselves.  Our Scrum Masters must truly understand and advocate the Scrum Guide.  They are able to quickly assess a team's maturity and do what it takes to help be it training, mentoring, consulting, or coaching.  Our Scrum Masters must be well versed with Scrum, eXtreme Programming, and Lean.  Do you have what it takes to be one of us?

This is a contract position.

Your Will Be Accountable to Maintain Our Scrum Master Principles:

• Know yourself and seek self-improvement
• Be technically and tactically proficient
• Know your team and look out for their welfare
• Keep your team(s) informed
• Set the example
• Ensure team-desired behavioral changes are understood, actively managed, and achieved
• Train everyone as a team
• Make sound and timely decisions
• Develop a sense of responsibility among your teammates
• Encourage your team to only employ itself in accordance with its capabilities
• Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions

Your Primary Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the organizational journey to do more with less
• Continually assess the maturity of each team with quantitative and qualitative measures & metrics
• Continually collaborate with other Scrum Masters to establish greater learning opportunities across the organization
• Continually collaborate with coaches to hone program-level READY WHENs and DONE WHENs
• Continually collaborate with those serving in business roles to develop and hone roadmaps
• Continually collaborate with those serving in technical roles to help them identify ways to lean their processes
• Continually collaborate with their Scrum team(s) so they can identify risks and quickly manage them to closure
• Continually collaborate with their Scrum team(s) so they can identify waste and quickly work to eliminate, automate, or reduce it
• Ensure their Scrum team(s) is conducting their ceremonies (Planning, Review, Retrospectives, and Standups)
• Help their Scrum team(s) develop and maintain team norms
• Help their Scrum team(s) by presenting insightful measures & metrics
• Be able to provide ad-hoc training on any related topics like Agile, Scrum, Lean, Writing, Blockers, etc.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

To be considered for this position, please email a resume to careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Junior Software Developer

Location: Remote (with ability to meet in Germantown, MD office weekly)

Description: 
The Junior Software Developer is part of an agile development team building and working on enterprise grade software systems on top of the Microsoft .NET development stack. The Junior Software Developer is involved in all areas of development from design to development to testing.

This is a contract position.

Duties and Responsibilities
Working with an agile team to develop, test, and maintain web and desktop-based business applications built on Microsoft technologies. Assisting in the collection and documentation of user’s requirements, development of user stories, and estimates. Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software. Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards. Participating in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code. Package and support deployment of releases. Working with teammates in the migration of older applications (asp) to current Microsoft technologies. Developing, refining, and tuning integrations between applications. Analyzing and resolving technical and application problems. Adhering to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget. Providing third-level support to business users.

Desired Skills & Experience

Minimum Requirements:

• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Strong desire to learn

Core Competency Requirements:

• Solid understanding of object oriented programming concepts
• Solid understanding of relational database design and querying concepts
• Familiarity with version control concepts

Preferred Competency Requirements:

• Exposure to Microsoft .NET development using C# and ASP.NET
• Exposure to web development using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
• Knowledge of unit testing theory

To be considered for this position, please email us at careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Junior Software Developer

Location: Remote (with ability to meet in Germantown, MD office weekly)

Description: 
The Junior Software Developer is part of a development team building Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions and maintaining corporate and product websites.

The development teams utilize a microservice approach using the Microsoft Azure platform, Microsoft .NET languages (C# and ASP.NET), and MS SQL.  For the front-end the developments teams utilize HTML5, CSS 3.0, and JavaScript.

The Junior Software Developer will be involved in all facets of the lifecycle to include planning, building, testing, delivery, deployment, and maintenance.  Every team member will need to serve in any role.

This is a contract position.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Actively support the team as a full stack software developer
• Embrace an Agile-mindset throughout each day
• Embrace the use of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean
• Utilize a combination of Test-Driven-Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven-Development (BDD)
• Practice secure coding
• Practice Agile engineering
• Continually align to standard engineering approaches and quality minimums
• Continually refactor code and scripts
• Continually suggest enhancements to the organization and team technical stacks
• Collaborate with leadership and Product Owners to add more customer value to our tools
• Maintain VersionOne daily
• Check-in code to GitLab at least once a day
• Utilize static code analysis (SCA) tools daily (SonarQube & SonarLint)
• Continually seek ways to automate every aspect of delivery and deployment
• As needed, conduct code and peer reviews
• As needed, provide customer support
• As needed, provide internal demonstrations

Desired Skills & Experience

Minimum Requirements:

• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Strong desire to learn

Core Competency Requirements:

• Solid understanding of object oriented programming concepts
• Solid understanding of relational database design and querying concepts
• Familiarity with version control concepts

Preferred Competency Requirements:

• Exposure to Microsoft .NET development using C# and ASP.NET
• Exposure to web development using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
• Knowledge of unit testing theory

To be considered for this position, please email us at careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Release Train Engineer 

Location: Washington DC (metro accessible)

Description:

RTE to lead planning, integration, and execution of software development within a Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe). The candidate should have a solid background working within a Scaled Agile Framework for a minimum of 3 years as an RTE. RTE will facilitate across a program of approximately 12 teams with multiple partners.  Position requires strong communication and organizational skills.

This is a contract position.

Responsibilities include:

Establish program level cadence and drive program level ceremonies (e.g. PI Planning, Product Management Council, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives, HIP Sprint)

Facilitate the coordinated preparation and execution of release planning for the ART. This includes:

• Working with the ART team who prioritizes the features to be considered in the next program increment (PI) planning cycle
• Facilitating the ART team’s refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready
• Facilitating the ART team who prioritizes the technology enablers to be considered in the next program increment planning cycle.
• Assists the ART in communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery
• Ensuring effective communication and coordination for and during PI planning
• Managing change to the ART’s PI plan and the impacts of those changes

Drive cross team, ART, and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination. Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.

Serve as an escalation for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters and scrum teams

Facilitate alignment dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum Teams. Understand and manage upstream/downstream dependencies.

Foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups – act in a single voice Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.

Manage program level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and oversee the development of reports and analyses that document program activity.

Develop / modify processes, policies, and procedures related to SAFe to facilitate the working relationship between project teams and partners

Act as a galvanizing force for sharing Agile and SAFe knowledge across the organization.

Support the configuration of SAFe to the needs of the organization, standardizing and documenting practices and coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.

To be considered for this position, please email us at careers@disruptiveOps.com.

Location: Washington D.C., Remote Position

Duration: Four Months with opportunity to extend 1 year

Description

The Operational Development (OD) Consultant is accountable to help our methodologist and technologist understand the key aspects of popular leadership frameworks so they can seek innovative ways to quantify how an individual’s perceived leadership capabilities aligns to those frameworks.

Your Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) with Organizational Development
• Subject Matter Expert with Leadership frameworks, principles, and theories
• Conduct research on best practices and innovative ideas to recruit, develop, and retain technologist for leadership opportunities
• Collaborate with methodologist and technologist to help quantify leadership models
• Collaborate with primary investigator on documenting findings, risks, and understanding on the feasibility of quantifying leadership models
• Provide insights on personal traits that will help with recruiting, developing, and retaining technology leaders

Qualifications:

• Requires Bachelor’s degree with 4 years’ experience or 10 years’ experience with OD
• Highly experienced with leadership and OD theories with at least 2 large organizations
• Certification or experience with popular leadership / personality assessments
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale leadership, manager, and/or high-performing team programs within a complex, matrixed, and transforming organization
• Working knowledge of measurement & assessment methods, talent & learning management, career development and customer service best practices.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.