Agile Coach

About This Role

Act as an Agile Coach for a federal agency, overseeing Agile transformation for multiple teams and advancing an Agile culture through coaching and training executives, managers, product owners, and Scrum Masters.

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 for new Agile teams
• 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 of new and existing Agile teams
• Help teams set up their team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting
• Assist organizations to define, prioritize, and decompose requirements in Product and Program Backlogs
• Evolve and maintain the Agile Maturity Assessment model, assess team performance, and report findings
• Provide feedback on processes, policies, procedures, training, and tooling changes to support enterprise Agile transformation

Requirements

• Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and techniques
• Superior organizational skills with acute attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in time-sensitive situations 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 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, and implementing SAFe
• 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