Agile Coach

About This Role

Act as an Agile Coach supporting a large federal agency, overseeing Agile transformation for multiple teams at both team and program levels. Facilitate workshops, provide training, and mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members to embrace Agile principles and DevSecOps.

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, individual and team roles and responsibilities
• Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders and contractors
• Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, and provide ongoing Agile Coaching support
• Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that have implemented Agile but need assistance
• 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, and report findings
• Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters
• Lead and participate in Agile communities of practices, and prepare Agile artifacts and methodology documentation

Requirements

• Familiarity 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 and prioritize multiple projects
• Agile coaching experience
• Minimum of 5 years of practical Agile experience
• Strong understanding of Agile concepts with an 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 and building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture
• 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