Agile Coach with Security Clearance

About the role

The Agile Coach will oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level to enable successful delivery of large strategic system development initiatives. They will facilitate team workshops, lead Agile Training, provide coaching and mentoring, and support the Agile Transformation Roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams at both the team and program level to enable successful delivery of large strategic system development initiatives.
• Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, individual and team roles and responsibilities.
• Create, deliver, and strategize Agile Training for government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies.
• Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that have implemented Agile but need assistance to refine their processes.
• Provide practical hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members of new and existing Agile teams.
• Aid teams with sprint planning and implementation, and provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout multiple iterations.
• 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 Agile maturity, and report findings.
• Provide feedback on processes, policies, procedures, training, and tooling changes to better support the enterprise's Agile transformation.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to demonstrate superior organizational skills with an acute attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in time-sensitive situations and prioritize multiple projects with similar deadlines.
• 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 by assisting each organization to customize its own path, approach, and solutions to becoming Agile.
• 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).
• Ideal certifications include or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework SPCT, Scrum Alliance CST, ICET, Agile ICE-AC, or 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.

Benefits

Our commitment includes a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) plan, flexible spending accounts (health, dependent care, and commuter), paid time off, and observance of state/federal holidays. We also offer a robust professional development program and a supportive work environment.