Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Base pay range: $81,536.00/yr - $/yr

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Department:
Project Management

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) seeks an experienced, enthusiastic team member to act as an Agile Coach supporting a large federal agency committed to an Agile, product‑focused, and Dev Sec Ops  operating model.

• 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 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 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

• Familiar with Dev Sec Ops  tools and techniques such as modern IDEs, Git Hub, 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 Dev Ops 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)

• Master’s degree or other higher education degree in Information Technology‑related field
• Certifications including or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework – SPC, Scrum Alliance – CST, ICAgile – ICE‑AC / ICP‑CAT‑Equivalent Expert / Senior Coaching Certifications
• Secure coding knowledge
• Open‑source tools management
• SEI‑CMMI and NIST experience
• Project Management Training or Education such as PMP program