Software Development Manager

Description & Requirements

Maximus is seeking a results-oriented Software Development Project Manager to join our team managing multiple delivery teams while shaping our clients' technological and operational future through thoughtful collaboration, adherence to industry best practices, and by way of a continuous improvement mindset.

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS196, T4, Band 7

Job Description:

• Engage as trusted advisor with client leadership team, demonstrating responsiveness to priorities while also providing actionable strategies and recommendations to solve challenges, improve processes, and achieve client goals

• Serve as main Point of Contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes, enhancing awareness of work in progress, and promoting collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts

• Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change

• Promote development team and program actions to mature the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practice in place to include but not limited to the following:

o Encourage organizational alignment of the ART (AGile Release Train) with client strategy and goals, and business objectives

o Foster collaboration among teams to facilitate flow of work, removing impediments and helping to escalate issues through problem-solving actions

o Enable internal engagement in Innovation and Planning opportunities to promote continuous improvement

o Help manage risks, constraints, and dependencies that impact the ART's goals

o Identify and track metrics that enable data-driven decisions and improvements

o Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and ART Syncs

• Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties if on leave
• Maintain weekly communication with the client's Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group
• Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput
• Promote a strategy with tactical steps that can be implemented and monitored leading to improved code quality practices, automation testing, test-driven development, shifting of security to the left, and requirements traceability

Minimum requirements:

• Due to federal requirements only US Citizens who do not possess dual citizenship with another country may be considered.

Selected candidate will be required to successfully complete a government-sponsored clearance process for position of public tr...