Sr. Agile Coach
Employment Type: FullTime Experienced
Department: Project Management
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 Productfocus and DevSecOps in pursuit of increasing efficiency efficacy and overall success of various IT verticals and missions. The ideal candidate should embody an Agile mindset and be passionate about empowering an Agile culture through experience coaching guiding and supporting executives managers product owners Scrum Masters and others.
CGS brings motivated highly skilled and creative people together to solve the governments most dynamic problems with cuttingedge technology. To carry out our mission we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation appreciate collaboration and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.
Skills and attributes for success:
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 handson 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 enterprises Agile transformation.
Facilitate and coordinate crossteam planning workshops and coach other scrum masters to facilitate crossteam planning workshops.
Facilitate and coordinate crossteam grooming sessions. Lead and participate in Agile communities of practices. Prepare and/or update organizationwide 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 highperforming Agile development teams and largescale programs across the enterprise.
Qualifications:
Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques such as modern IDEs GitHub containerization everything as code and zerotrust.
Ability to demonstrate superior organizational skills with an acute attention to detail.
Ability to work effectively under pressure in timesensitive 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 handson 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).
Ideally you will also have:
Masters degree or other higher education degree in Information Technologyrelated field.
Certifications including or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework SPC ScrumAlliance CST ICAgile ICEAC / ICPCAT Equivalent Expert / Senior Coaching Certifications.
Secure coding knowledge.
Opensource tools management.
SEICMMI and NIST experience.
Project Management Training or Education such as PMP program.
Our Commitment:
Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human technical and financial resources. We combine cuttingedge technology with worldclass personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our clients specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems.
For the past seven years weve been growing our governmentcontracting portfolio and along the way weve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty professionalism and quality work.
Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and selfawareness professionalism in all we do and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come.
We care about our employees. Therefore we offer a comprehensive benefits package.
Health Dental and Vision
Life Insurance
401k
Flexible Spending Account (Health Dependent Care and Commuter)
Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
Contact Government Services LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
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