Agile Coach

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with system stakeholders and technical teams to help them understand and execute an approach to evaluating and prioritizing cross-program capabilities and requirements.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and advice to government teams on Agile system engineering processes, practices, and activities using industry best practices.
• Provide coaching on specific roles, including but not limited to: Solution Managers, Solution Train Engineers, Release Train Engineers, and Product Owners.
• Proactively seek opportunities to use process improvement and re-engineering methodologies to facilitate improvements to processes.
• Apply systems analysis and design methodology assessments to identify technical debt, architectural runway, and efficiency trade-offs against current and proposed/desired cloud-based software system design.
• Develop and support Agile maturity assessments and coaching plans for Solution and Program level teams.
• Support the identification, collection, and reporting of Agile execution metrics and measurements to communicate adoption progress, bottlenecks, and areas of opportunity.
• Develop briefings and training courses or materials for Solution and Program level teams.
• Organize and lead Release Planning events to set release goals, objectives, and roadmap.
• Facilitate positive team dynamics to help maximize team performance.

Requirements

• Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
• Experience using Agile project management tools, such as Jira.
• Knowledgeable of Agile frameworks (preferably SAFe).
• Experience as a certified Scrum Master, certified Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, or Agile Coach.
• Strong organizational, time-management, and verbal / written communication skills, able to convey information across multiple customer and corporate audiences.
• Ability to facilitate larger sessions or events for release planning, etc.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.