Technical Lead/Agile Coach

About Oddball

Oddball believes that the best products are built when companies understand and value the things they are working on. We value learning and growth and the ability to make a big impact at a small company. We believe that we can make big changes happen and improve the daily lives of millions of people by bringing quality software to the federal space.

About the Role

We are hiring a Technical Lead to work on a pivotal Federal program that is making a positive impact on millions of Americans' daily lives.

What You'll Be Doing

Oddball is hiring an experienced Technical Lead to lead, shape, and grow one of our largest engineering teams. In this role, the Technical Lead will lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, product managers, and others to drive and deliver high-quality products to our federal partners. This Technical Lead will manage, mentor, guide, and mold our team drawing on their experience delivering and creating quality products.

What You'll Bring

• Experience Leading Teams: 5+ years' experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of designers and developers.
• Agile Expertise:
  • 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.
• Tool Familiarity: 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.
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong experience with Python.
  • Ability to successfully breakdown technical items in discussions with the business user.
• Communication & Mentorship:
  • 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.
• Work Management: Comfortable handling multiple ongoing engagements and parallel work streams.
• Other Duties: Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen and able to work domestically.
• Must be able to attain low-level security clearance.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Benefits

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

Oddball is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. Any applicant with a mental or physical disability who requires an accommodation during the application process should contact an Oddball HR representative to request such an accommodation by emailing hr@Oddball.io.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.