Agile Coach

Duration: 12 months with extension possible to 18 months

Other Approved Locations:
Pennington, NJ

Pay Scale: $90-95/hr W2 (Cannot subcontract or C2C)

Matlen Silver is seeking a highly experienced Agile Coach consultant to drive engineering excellence and productivity across our client's software engineering organization. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor and mentor to both technical leadership and individual engineering teams to bridge the gap between high-level productivity methodologies and ground-level technical execution.

• Drive Automation Adoption:
  Guide development teams through the practical adoption and maturation of test management automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tooling.
• Code Quality Tech Debt:
  Advise teams on strategic approaches to refactoring, reducing legacy technical debt, and implementing standards that consistently produce higher-quality, resilient code.
• Bridge Process and Technology:
  Align productivity methodologies with modern engineering practices (e.g., test-driven development, shift-left testing, trunk-based development) to ensure processes actually enhance technical delivery rather than hinder it.

• Multi-Level
  
  Coaching:
  
  Seamlessly transition between coaching individual teams on tactical engineering challenges and advising senior leadership on large-scale technical strategy.
• Train at Scale:
  Design, develop, and deliver training programs, workshops, and playbooks to scale engineering best practices and tooling adoption across the wider enterprise.
• Change Management:
  Act as a change agent, building buy-in from engineering teams and overcoming resistance to new tools or methodologies through empathy, expertise, and proven results.
• Exceptional Communicator:
  You possess superb communication and interpersonal skills. You can explain complex technical paradigms to non-technical stakeholders and debate architectural choices with senior engineers, building trust and consensus at all levels.
• Deep Technical Credibility:
  You command respect from engineering teams because you have a prior, extensive hands-on technical background. You understand the friction points of software development because you have experienced them firsthand.
• Strategic Yet Tactical:
  You can design a multi-year enterprise tooling strategy but are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to troubleshoot a specific team's workflow bottleneck.

• 10+ years of software development, engineering leadership, or technical architecture experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Dev Ops concepts using:
  Git Hub, Jenkins, XL Release, and Ansible Tower.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with leading and executing test automation frameworks including but not limited to TDD and BDD with tools: nUnit/xUnit, Selenium, and Sonar Qube.
• Proven track record in a Director-level, Principal, or Senior Coaching capacity within a large-scale, complex enterprise environment.
• Deep, practical expertise with promoting and coaching modern CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Bitbucket, Jenkins, Celestial, Ansible, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions) and Test Management Automation best practices.
• 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 while also providing one-on-one or team-based mentorship.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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