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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Program Manager / Agile Program Lead - **Company:** INNOVIM, LLC - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Data Assimilation, Information Technology - **Published:** August 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/alternate-program-manager-agile-program-lead-noaa-silver-spring-md--27676d96-9dc5-4a39-950f-b0f9a9a41653 ## About the Role * Education. Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) or higher in business, management, or a related field. * Experience. Eight to ten years of programmatic, portfolio, or IT program management, directing all activities of assigned delivery-order projects. * Certification. PMP certification and scaled-Agile certification (for example SAFe). Preferred Qualifications * Scaled Agile. SAFe, Scrum-of-Scrums, and Program Increment planning across distributed scientific-software teams. * DevOps and CI/CD. Hands-on pipeline, automated-test, and cloud-native delivery experience supporting an Agile-DevOps R2O redesign. * Scientific-software literacy. Ability to engage numerical-weather-prediction teams credibly (MPAS/UFS, data assimilation, GPU, AI4NWP)., Agile Programming Methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Coaching, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, Data Analysis, DevOps, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Government, Information Technology & Information Systems, Insurance, Leadership, Literacy, Performance Metrics, Program Planning, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project/Program Management, Risk, Science Software, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, ScrumMaster, Standup Meetings, Test Automation ## Description The Alternate Program Manager acts with full authority in the Program Manager's absence and, as Agile Program Lead, owns the integrated Agile program-management framework across the four Moonshot focus areas. The position charters the Agile teams, establishes the program operating rhythm and decision-rights model, owns the Living Program Roadmap, integrates cross-project dependencies, leads the Scrum Master facilitators through a Scrum-of-Scrums construct, and drives the research-to-operations-to-research (R2O2R) management approach with Government concurrence., * Agile framework. Charter one Agile team per focus area, define working agreements and cadences, recommend the RACI decision-rights model, and stand up the single Agile tracking environment on the Government-provided platform. * Living Program Roadmap. Own the roadmap linking Moonshot objectives to focus-area milestones, dependencies, Readiness Levels, transition gates, and Government decision points; refresh at least quarterly. * Dependency management. Assess and resolve dependencies crossing focus-area boundaries; escalate at-risk items. * R2O2R. Establish Government-concurred readiness definitions and evidence fields; recommend the Agile-DevOps transition redesign; facilitate NWS readiness reviews. * Facilitator leadership. Lead the two Senior Agile Facilitators; convert workstream data into an integrated program view; coach on flow and iteration methods. * Continuous improvement. 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