Principal Agilist

Program Management Solutions is looking for a Principal Agilist to join our growing team. This will be a senior strategic leader responsible for driving enterprise-wide Agile transformation using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), by coaching executives and teams, leading SAFe implementations, and ensuring alignment with business goals for improved flow, predictability, and value delivery. Key duties involve expert-level coaching, designing transformation roadmaps, overseeing metrics, and acting as the authority on Lean-Agile principles and practices within complex organizations. This is a hybrid position in the Washington DC metro area.

Key Responsibilities

• SAFe Transformation Leadership: Lead and govern all aspects of large-scale SAFe adoption and continuous improvement.


• Executive Coaching: Mentor senior leadership, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Product Owners, and Scrum Masters on Lean-Agile principles.


• Agile Execution Guidance: Facilitate key ceremonies (like PI Planning, value stream mapping) and guide Agile Release Train (ART) launches.


• Strategy & Alignment: Develop and implement transformation roadmaps, ensuring Agile delivery aligns with strategic objectives and measurable value.


• Continuous Improvement: Implement frameworks for measuring value, track KPIs, analyze bottlenecks, and support ongoing maturity assessments.


• Change Agent: Drive cultural shifts towards collaboration, transparency, and self-organization.


• Tool Expertise: Requires
  expertise of enterprise Agile tools like Jira Align. 

Core Qualifications & Skills

• Certification: Certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) is required.


• Experience: 20 years in IT solutions. 10+ years leading enterprise-scale Agile transformations.


• Framework Knowledge: Deep expertise in SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and other Lean-Agile frameworks.


• Leadership: Proven ability to influence, mentor, and drive complex organizational change. Ability to lead team responsible for all SAFe® transformation activities across OCI.