Technical Agile Coach (Test Automation/CICD) - TX

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, Director-level Technical Coach to drive engineering excellence and productivity across the organization. This role requires a seasoned technologist who has direct experience in software development and now excels at elevating how engineering teams build, test, and ship software. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor and mentor to both technical leadership and individual engineering pods, bridging the gap between high-level methodologies and ground-level technical execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide development teams through the practical adoption and maturation of test management automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tooling.
• Advise teams on strategic approaches to refactoring, reducing legacy technical debt, and implementing standards that produce resilient code.
• Align productivity methodologies with modern engineering practices such as test-driven development and trunk-based development.
• Transition between coaching individual teams on tactical engineering challenges and advising senior leadership on large-scale technical strategy.
• Design, develop, and deliver training programs, workshops, and playbooks to scale engineering best practices.
• Act as a change agent, building buy-in from engineering teams and overcoming resistance to new tools or methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years of software development, engineering leadership, or technical architecture experience. 7+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps concepts. 7+ years of hands-on experience with leading and executing test automation frameworks including TDD and BDD. Proven track record in a Director-level, Principal, or Senior Coaching capacity within a large-scale enterprise environment. Extensive experience implementing strategies to measure, manage, and pay down technical debt at scale. Demonstrated ability to design and deliver technical training to large groups and provide one-on-one mentorship.
• Technical Skills: DevOps Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, XL Release, and Ansible Tower. Automation Tools: nUnit/xUnit, Selenium, and SonarQube. CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Bitbucket, Jenkins, Celestial, Ansible, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions). Test Management Automation best practices.

Key Attributes

• Possess communication and interpersonal skills to explain complex technical paradigms to non-technical stakeholders and debate architectural choices with senior engineers.
• Command respect from engineering teams due to an extensive hands-on technical background and firsthand experience with software development friction points.
• Able to design a multi-year enterprise tooling strategy while also being able to troubleshoot a specific team's workflow bottleneck.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• 401K program with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program, certification prep, and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars.
• Certification discounts and other perks to associations like CompTIA and IIBA.
• Dedicated customer service team for questions about benefits and other resources.
• Certified Career Coach.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.