Agile Coach

About This Role

Act as an Agile Coach supporting a large federal agency, empowering an Agile culture for executives, managers, product owners, and Scrum Masters. Oversee Agile transformation for multiple teams and lead the creation and delivery of Agile training for government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level
• Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, and roles
• Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders
• Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, and provide ongoing Agile Coaching support
• Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that need assistance to refine their processes
• Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members
• 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
• Embed an agile culture using techniques from a wide range of agile and lean methodologies and frameworks

Requirements

• Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques (modern IDE's, GitHub, containerization, everything as code, and zero-trust)
• Superior organizational skills with acute attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in time-sensitive situations
• 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
• Experience with launching Agile Release Trains, building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture, empowering a Lean Portfolio
• 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