Agile Coach

About This Role

This role is for an experienced and enthusiastic Agile Coach to support a large federal agency in its Agile transformation. The coach will lead the adoption of Agile, Product-focus, and DevSecOps operating models to increase efficiency and success across various IT verticals.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level to enable successful delivery of large strategic system development initiatives
• Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, individual and team roles and responsibilities
• Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies
• Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, as well as provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout multiple iterations
• Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members of new and existing Agile teams
• Help teams set up their team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting
• Evolve and maintain the Agile Maturity Assessment model, Assess team performance and Agile maturity, and report findings
• Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to facilitate cross-team planning workshops
• Lead and participate in Agile communities of practices
• Oversee the coaching and planning of multiple high-performing Agile development teams and large-scale programs across the enterprise

Requirements

• Agile coaching experience
• Minimum of 5 years of practical Agile experience
• Strong understanding of Agile concepts with an emphasis on SAFe including Scrum, Kanban, Product Ownership, and Agile Scaling
• Experience as a hands-on organizational change agent working across multiple teams
• Experience with assisting leadership and team members with removing barriers and embracing transformation by assisting each organization to customize its own path, approach, and solutions to becoming Agile
• Experience with launching Agile Release Trains, building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture, empowering a Lean Portfolio, and clearly understanding what it takes to successfully implement SAFe in the enterprise
• Experience supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs)

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of practical Agile experience

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree or other higher education degree in Information Technology-related field
• Certifications including or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework – SPC - ScrumAlliance – CST - ICAgile – ICE-AC / ICP-CAT- Equivalent Expert / Senior Coaching Certifications
• Secure coding knowledge
• Open-source tools management
• SEI-CMMI and NIST experience
• Project Management Training or Education such as PMP program

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits