• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives, Refinement). • Coach teams on Agile mindset, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement. • Enable delivery of digital solutions including web, mobile, cloud, integrations, and platforms. • Remove blockers and manage dependencies impacting delivery. · Work closely with the Project manager to flag any issues, report any blockers, and provide regular updates when required. · Work closely with Project manager to align on the priorities and keep a healthy backlog. • Promote DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and quality-first delivery. • Track and communicate Agile delivery metrics. • Ensure transparency and effective stakeholder communication.

• Lead and support 2+ Agile pods, facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives • Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles, ensuring adherence to best practices and continuous improvement • Partner with Product/Experience Owners, Engineering, and Banking stakeholders to align delivery with business priorities • Facilitate story writing, backlog refinement, prioritization, and readiness to ensure sprint goals are met • Enable teams to identify, manage, and remove impediments and dependencies, particularly across core banking systems • Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to drive cross-team coordination and resource alignment • Use Agile metrics to track progress, highlight risks, and drive actionable insights through retrospectives • Lead team maturity assessments and implement coaching plans to improve Agile effectiveness • Support risk identification and mitigation using Agile delivery data and best practices • Foster a culture of trust, transparency, and continuous learning • Mentor junior Scrum Masters and guide teams toward self-organization and accountability • Facilitate decision-making, conflict resolution, and stakeholder alignment across delivery teams • Ensure stories are "sprint-ready" and aligned with product vision, architectural standards, and banking controls

• Monitor process metrics and act to promote the continuous improvements required by the team. • Support developers in improving their technical capabilities and needs. • Support the Product Owner (PO) in prioritizing backlog items. • Assist the PO in describing backlog items until they are sufficiently detailed for development. • Help the team build the business metrics necessary to track value delivery to the client. • Track and monitor business metrics. • Support changes to the software development process. • Facilitate interaction with other teams during the development of the IT solution to remove impediments, dependencies, and overlaps, focusing on maximizing value delivery to the company/client.

VHA supports and provides medical care for VA’s eligible beneficiaries through the VA health program, which includes VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) and contracted health care networks. The Office of Clinical Informatics within the Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Digital Health Office (DHO) advances the enterprise standard of care and patient experience using improved data, tools, and informatics processes organized around continuously delivering value to its customers. This is achieved through Lean-Agile delivery of clinical practice solutions that support best practice standards for clinical care. OHI is further responsible for ensuring the success of the modernized VA EHR, Oracle Health Millennium/Cerner through continuous exploration, integration, deployment and release on demand of Integrated Health Technology (IHT) solutions. These efforts aim to increase Veterans' access to care and support their active participation in their healthcare. Gritter Francona is looking for a Principle Agilist to help support a potential project to assist this objective. Key Responsibilities Enterprise SAFe® Leadership - Lead and oversee all SAFe® transformation initiatives across OCI, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy, business outcomes, and operational priorities. - Serve as the enterprise authority on SAFe®, Lean-Agile mindset, and Agile product delivery. - Act as the primary change leader driving sustained Agile adoption across portfolios, value streams, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Transformation Strategy & Execution - Define, implement, and continuously evolve OCI’s SAFe® transformation roadmap, maturity model, and success metrics. - Guide large, complex organizations through multi-year SAFe® transformations, balancing speed, quality, and organizational readiness. - Ensure consistent application of Lean-Agile principles to improve flow, predictability, quality, and time-to-market. Leadership & Team Enablement - Lead, mentor, and develop the SAFe® transformation team, including SPCs, RTEs, Agile Coaches, and transformation practitioners. - Empower leaders, managers, and teams to adopt servant leadership and build high-performing, self-organizing Agile teams. - Foster a culture of continuous learning, relentless improvement, and psychological safety. Executive Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement - Partner closely with executive leadership, portfolio management, and business stakeholders to align Agile execution with enterprise objectives. - Provide expert coaching to senior leaders on Lean-Agile leadership behaviors, organizational design, and value-based decision-making. - Communicate transformation progress, risks, and outcomes with clarity and transparency. Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement - Establish enterprise standards, governance, and best practices that enable agility while supporting compliance and operational rigor. - Measure and improve business agility using actionable metrics and data-driven insights. - Identify and remove systemic impediments that limit organizational performance and value delivery.