Agile Coach

Genesis Consulting has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Agile Coach with a passion for growth and business transformation for a Federal client in the Washington, DC area. Join our team and work on challenging, complex solutions that are driving innovation and technology advancement in the local community. Work with teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe.

Our clients are some of the world's leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Agile Coach is responsible for the ensuring that the Agile development practices are followed and adjusted as required. The Agile Coach works with the teams and the organization to establish and adapt to Agile practices that help to ensure high quality results and a high level of customer satisfaction. Coaches may be required to work at the team level to ensure that delivery teams are adopting agile and performing effectively;

at the portfolio or program level, to help agencies to establish the appropriate processes for managing a portfolio of work in an agile way; at the organization level, to drive strategic change across the organization and ensure that adoption of agile techniques is embedded from the most senior levels of the organization; or across all levels to ensure that organizations adopt a pragmatic approach to the way in which they govern delivery and continuous improvement of digital services.

Duties include but may not be limited to:

* Embed an agile culture using techniques from a wide range or agile and lean methodologies and frameworks, but be methodology agnostic

* Help to create an open and trust-based environment, which enables a focus on delivery and facilitates continuous improvement

* Assess the culture of a team or organization and delivery processes in place to identify improvements and facilitate these improvements with the right type of support

* Showcase relevant tools and techniques such as coaching, advising, workshops, and mentoring

* Engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization

* Develop clear lines of escalation, in agreement with senior managers

* Ensure any stakeholder can easily find out an accurate and current project or program status, without disruption to delivery

* Work effectively with other suppliers and agencies

* Apply best tools and techniques to: team roles, behaviors, structure and culture, agile ceremonies and practices, knowledge transfer and sharing, program management, cross-team coordination, and overall governance of digital service delivery

* Ensure key metrics and requirements that support the team and delivery are well defined and maintained

* Equip staff with the ability to coach others

* If organization level, executive coaching on the fundamental considerations of digital service delivery design

* Improve continuous integration and delivery while enabling the production of working quality software

* Provide services to develop, document and implement agile practices that are situationally appropriate

* Provide mentorship and education as well as developing/delivering guidance and instructions documentation to enable program personnel in defining the organization's Agile processes, such as engage in Agile ceremonies, backlogs grooming, agile project management, document use cases, and developing user stories

* Must demonstrate experience designing, implementing, and leading agile coaching engagements for mid to executive level professionals, and emerging leaders

* Support portfolio and program management processes and stakeholders to improve Lean-Agile product management workflow

* Lead release planning activities, including developing capability maps, feature maps, and story maps that support rapid releases of minimum viable products and incremental delivery of enhancements

* Lead retrospectives and process improvement efforts to improve overall throughput and decrease lead time from prioritization to delivery/release

* Support senior decision-makers with plans, reports, metrics, analyses,…