Technical Lead/Agile Coach

Summary

Join Oddball, a company that values learning and growth, as a Technical Lead to work on a pivotal Federal program impacting millions. Lead and grow a large engineering team, delivering high-quality products to federal partners. Manage, mentor, and guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, and product managers. Leverage your experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) and Python expertise. Successfully break down technical items for business users and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. Mentor junior to senior-level developers and handle multiple ongoing projects. Oddball offers a fully remote position, annual stipend, comprehensive benefits, 401k matching, flexible PTO, and paid holidays.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of designers and developers
• Trained cross-functional teams on Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban adapted for VA compliance and governance
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies and coached Product Owners and stakeholders on value-driven delivery
• Proven success guiding Agile transformations in large enterprise or federal settings, ideally within the VA or healthcare IT environment
• Mastery of Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and Lean principles, with the ability to tailor practices to meet VA program needs and compliance standards
• Strong familiarity with Agile tools supported under MTS (e.g., Jira, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow), and experience coaching teams in effective tool usage
• Strong experience with Python
• Ability to successfully breakdown technical items in discussions with the business user
• Strong verbal and written communication skills directed at both technical and non-technical audiences
• Capable of taking direction from senior leadership and translating into concrete next steps and actions
• The ability to mentor junior to senior level developers and collaborators
• Comfortable handling multiple ongoing engagements and parallel work streams
• Must be a US Citizen and able to work domestically
• Must be able to attain low-level security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

• Lead, shape, and grow one of our largest engineering teams
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, product managers, and others to drive and deliver high-quality products to our federal partners
• Manage, mentor, guide, and mold our team drawing on their experience delivering and creating quality products
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Benefits

• Fully remote
• Annual stipend
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Company Match 401(k) plan
• Flexible PTO, Paid Holidays