Senior SAFe Agile Coach| Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant

Primary Responsibilities

• Multi-ART Synchronization: Orchestrate the coordination of three ARTs, managing complex inter-train dependencies and ensuring consistent application of SAFe principles across the program.
• PI Planning Leadership: Facilitate and continuously improve PI Planning events across multiple ARTs. Ensure alignment of: Vision, Backlogs, Dependencies, and PI Objectives. Coach stakeholders on effective pre- and post-PI processes (backlog readiness, inspect & adapt).
• Lead the strategy and execution of large-scale Program Increment (PI) Planning events, aligning all team members toward a unified vision and set of PI objectives.
• Safe Training and Enablement: Deliver and support SAFe training (e.g., Leading SAFe, SAFe for Teams, PO/PM) to leaders and teams, enable certification readiness, and reinforce SAFe principles through ongoing coaching.
• Stakeholder Mentorship: Educate company, program, and customer leads and team members on how to map SAFe milestones to program requirements.
• Sustainment & DevSecOps Strategy: Guide the integration of automated testing and DevSecOps into long-term sustainment workflows to reduce technical debt throughout systems.
• Agile Center of Excellence: Lead a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) to drive organizational maturity, conduct Maturity Assessments, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Metrics, Flow, and Continuous Improvement: Implement and coach SAFe flow metrics, including Flow Velocity, Flow Time, Predictability, and Quality.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and at least 12 years of relevant work experience.
• Must have or had a SAFe Program Consultant Certificate (SPC) or Advanced SAFe Program Consultant Certificate to be considered (ASPC).
• Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC) certification required within 3 months of start date.
• At least 5 years of Full Time work experience as an STE, RTE, or Release Manager on a large-scale technical program; or at least 10 years of Full Time work experience as a Scrum Master in software delivery.
• At least 3 years of experience in multi-ART / Solution Train environments.
• Recent experience teaching SAFe courses and enabling certification.
• Demonstrated experience applying SAFe as the agile development methodology on a large-scale technical program.
• Experience with large, complex systems (software + hardware integration).
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.
• Experience briefing leadership/customers on key status and project progression.
• Experience communicating with and briefing status to external stakeholders, including customer/government representatives.
• Proficiency with Agile tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rally, IBM ELM, etc.).
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across diverse systems and groups.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must have the ability to manage time extremely well and quickly sense when an issue needs to be addressed or triaged.
• Clearance Required: Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current Full Time Agile Coaching experience on a large, technical software program.
• Significant technology experience in software development, test, or systems engineering such that a candidate could qualify on the program as a participant software, test, or systems engineer.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle - as a developer, tester, analyst, product manager, etc.
• Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality.
• Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams.
• Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.