Agile Coach

Summary

Join CGS as an Agile Coach and contribute to government innovation by overseeing Agile transformation for multiple teams, facilitating workshops, delivering Agile training, and providing coaching and mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members. You will help teams with sprint planning, implementation, and process refinement, while also setting up team boards and workflow automation. The role involves assessing team performance, providing feedback on processes, and facilitating cross-team planning and grooming sessions. You will also help iterate on the Agile Transformation Roadmap and ensure Agile project metrics are tracked and monitored. This position requires a strong understanding of Agile concepts, including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, along with experience as an organizational change agent.

Requirements

• Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques such as modern IDE's, GitHub, 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 DevOps 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)

Responsibilities

• 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 practices. 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or other higher education degree in Information Technology-related field
• Certifications including or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework – SPC - ScrumAlliance – 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

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays