Agile Coach

Agile Coach

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) provides a base pay range of $81,536.00 per year to $ per year. Actual pay will be based on skills and experience – discuss with your recruiter.

Employment Type: Full-Time, Experienced
Department: Project Management

Location: Rockville, MD

CGS is seeking an experienced, enthusiastic team member to act as an Agile Coach within our team supporting a large federal agency. The agency is committed to an operating model based on Agile, Product‑focus, and Dev Sec Ops . The ideal candidate will embody an Agile mindset and empower an Agile culture by coaching, guiding, and supporting executives, managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and others.

• 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 the creation, delivery, and strategy of Agile Training for government stakeholders and contractors regarding agency Agile processes, tools, and policies
• Help teams with sprint planning and implementation, and 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 in defining, prioritizing, and decomposing 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 practice; 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 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

• Familiarity with Dev Sec Ops  tools and techniques such as modern IDEs, Git Hub, containerization, everything as code, and zero‑trust
• Superior organizational skills with acute attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in time‑sensitive situations and prioritize multiple projects with similar deadlines
• Experience in Agile coaching
• Minimum five 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 assisting leadership and team members with removing barriers and embracing transformation by customizing Agile adoption paths
• Experience launching Agile Release Trains, building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Dev Ops culture, empowering a Lean Portfolio, and understanding SAFe implementation at all levels
• Experience supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs)

• Master’s degree or other higher education degree in an Information Technology‑related field
• Certifications such as Scaled Agile Framework – SPC, Scrum Alliance – CST, ICAgile – ICE‑AC, or equivalent expert/senior coaching certifications
• Secure coding knowledge
• Open‑sour…