Agile Coach

Cgsfederal; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CGS Federal seeks an experienced Agile Coach to lead Agile transformation across multiple teams and programs within a government-focused environment. You will facilitate workshops, train stakeholders, and mentor Scrum Masters and Product Owners to deliver large IT initiatives.

The role requires deep Agile expertise, SAFe proficiency, and hands-on change-agent capabilities across complex teams and release trains in a DevSecOps setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of practical Agile experience.
• Strong understanding of SAFe including Scrum, Kanban, Product Ownership, and Agile Scaling.
• Hands-on organizational change agent across multiple teams.
• Experience launching Agile Release Trains and building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture.
• Ability to customize Agile paths and solutions to fit enterprise needs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Agile transformation for multiple teams and programs to enable large system development initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops to teach Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, and roles/responsibilities.
• Lead Agile training for government stakeholders and contractors on processes, tools, and policies.
• Support sprint planning and ongoing coaching across multiple iterations.
• Provide hands-on mentoring to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members.

Skills

Agile coaching

SAFe

Scrum

Kanban

Product Ownership

DevSecOps familiarity

Education

Master’s degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Modern IDEs

GitHub

Containerization

Everything as code

Zero-trust

Job description

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 DevSecOps in pursuit of increasing efficiency, efficacy, and overall success of various IT verticals and missions.

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, 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.

Qualifications

• Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques such as modern IDEs, GitHub, 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 DevOps 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or other higher education degree in an Information Technology‑related field.
• Certifications including or equivalent to Scaled Agile Framework – SPC, ScrumAlliance – CST, ICAgile – ICE‑AC / ICP‑CAT, 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

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.