IT Analyst/Agile Lead

Location: Amarillo, TX

About the Role

A career at Pantex offers the opportunity to make a personal impact on the nation’s security. The organization seeks an experienced Information Technology (IT) Analyst to enhance and optimize mission‑critical systems, providing technical design, application development, and software implementation leadership.

Core Responsibilities

• Coordinate software development projects and lead agile teams.
• Work with project shareholders to scope, estimate, design, and deliver high‑quality software solutions.
• Evaluate current‑state systems and processes, identify improvement opportunities, and collaborate with leadership to enact change.
• Develop technical documentation and instructions; collaborate with external stakeholders across the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Interface with technical and business stakeholders (functional teams, project management, enterprise architects, system engineers, application developers) to design and develop software solutions.
• Establish program and project milestones, provide status updates, and deliver briefings to leadership.
• Develop and maintain multi‑year project proposals and budgets.
• Ensure adherence to project management policies, change management guidelines, cyber security requirements, and software quality assurance processes.
• Partner with IT project management to deliver solutions on schedule and within budget.
• Demonstrate innovation in designing solutions to complex problems, ensuring they are well‑engineered, efficient, operable, and maintainable.
• Guide and develop technical and capability roadmaps; represent technical and business interests at the enterprise level.
• Monitor current and future technology trends to support organizational project and production systems goals.

Agile Responsibilities

• Organize and facilitate agile activities: daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement.
• Ensure meetings are positive, productive, on‑topic, and time‑boxed.
• Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog.
• Effectively manage user story estimation and forecasting.
• Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices.
• Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress.
• Utilize team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery, cadence, etc.) to identify improvement areas and drive continuous improvement.
• Coach the team to improve collaboration and self‑management, promoting healthy interactions within the team and with external stakeholders.
• Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Rally).

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or information technology discipline; or
• Master’s degree in engineering, science, or information technology discipline; or
• Combination of at least 8 years of completed education and/or relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.

Preferred Requirements

• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Proven leadership in team environments and ability to build strong working relationships outside of IT.
• Coaching skills and ability to motivate teams; strong presentation abilities.
• Analytical and problem‑solving expertise.
• Experience in business analysis and project management: requirements elicitation, documentation, management, people and project management, solution design, alternative analysis, scope planning, and estimating.
• Organizational change management and process mapping/design experience.
• Experience working with software development teams in agile settings; Scrum Master and/or Product Owner experience.
• Deep knowledge of agile practices, frameworks, and techniques; familiarity with agile planning tools (JIRA, Confluence, Rally).
• Broad knowledge of software development technologies and practices: automation (APIs, scripts, workflows), data (databases, design, queries, analytics), programming concepts, DevOps, configuration/change management, SDLC, ITIL, user acceptance testing, automated testing.
• Agile, Scrum, or project management certification preferred (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMP, SAFe).
• Background in manufacturing, supply chain management, quality, and/or enterprise resource planning.

Security Clearance & Additional Requirements

A Department of Energy Q clearance is required; all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of current clearance status, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Q clearance is mandatory. The position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP), which includes a counter‑intelligence polygraph. Medical requirements, a pre‑placement physical, drug screening, background investigation, and U.S. citizenship are also required.

Benefits

Pantex offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes extensive health coverage, robust retirement planning, and opportunities for continuous learning such as education reimbursement. The organization emphasizes work‑life balance and supports employees with flexible arrangements to help them excel.