Agile Coach

About This Role

This Agile Coach role involves overseeing Agile transformation for multiple teams within a federal agency, facilitating workshops to instill Agile and Lean principles, and providing ongoing coaching to development teams. The position aims to increase efficiency and success across various IT verticals and missions through an Agile operating model.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level within a large federal agency
• Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, and roles/responsibilities
• Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training for government stakeholders and contractors
• Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, and provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams
• Provide ad hoc coaching to teams needing assistance to refine their Agile processes
• Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members of new and existing Agile teams
• Assist teams in setting up team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting
• Help organizations define, prioritize, and decompose requirements in Product and Program Backlogs
• Evolve and maintain the Agile Maturity Assessment model, assess team performance, and report findings
• Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to do so

Requirements

• Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques (IDEs, GitHub, containerization, everything as code, 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 emphasis on SAFe (Scrum, Kanban, Product Ownership, Agile Scaling)
• Experience as a hands-on organizational change agent working across multiple teams
• Experience with assisting leadership and team members with barrier removal and 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