Hybrid Agile Coach

at CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)

• Job title: Agile Coach
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $81,536 - $110,656 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Agile Coach driving Agile transformation initiatives for a government agency. Collaborating with teams to enhance efficiency and facilitate Agile culture principles.

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.
• Lead in the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training to government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies
• Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, as well as provide ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout multiple iterations.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Help iterate on and provide recommendations to advance the Agile Transformation Roadmap.
• 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 indications of potential problem areas and assist teams in identifying and implementing solutions to address the problems.
• Oversee the coaching and planning of multiple high-performing Agile development teams and large-scale programs across the enterprise.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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 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).

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays