Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Employment Type:

Full-Time, Experienced

Department:
Project Management

CGS is seeking an experienced 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  in pursuit of increasing efficiency, efficacy, and overall success of various IT verticals and missions.

• 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, 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 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.
• 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 assisting leadership and team members with removing barriers and embracing transformation by customising Agile paths and solutions.
• Experience launching Agile Release Trains, building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Dev Ops culture, empowering a Lean Portfolio, and understanding what it takes to successfully implement SAFe at enterprise 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.
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