Agile Coach with Security Clearance

About the role

The Agile Coach will support a large federal agency committed to Agile, Product-focus, and DevSecOps. The role involves overseeing Agile transformation, facilitating workshops, leading training, providing coaching, and supporting teams through various stages of Agile adoption.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level.
• Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles.
• Create, deliver, and strategize Agile Training for government stakeholders and contractors.
• Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members.
• Assist teams with sprint planning and implementation, and provide ongoing coaching support.
• Support teams in refining their processes and setting up team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting.
• 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, tooling changes, and assist teams in implementing solutions to address identified issues.
• Facilitate and coordinate cross-team planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to facilitate cross-team planning workshops.
• Facilitate and coordinate cross-team grooming sessions.
• Lead and participate in Agile communities of practices.
• Prepare and/or update organization-wide Agile artifacts and methodology documentation.
• Embed an agile culture using techniques from a wide range of agile and lean methodologies and frameworks.
• Ensure Agile project metrics are being tracked and monitored for potential problem areas and assist teams in identifying and implementing solutions.
• Oversee the coaching and planning of multiple high-performing Agile development teams and large-scale programs across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques such as modern IDE's, GitHub, containerization, everything as code, and zero-trust.
• 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 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 (starting with teams' / Program levels and scaling up to Large Solutions and Portfolio levels).
• Experience supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
• Master's degree or higher education degree in Information Technology-related field.
• Certifications including or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework SPCT, Scrum Alliance CST, ICET-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.