Remote Agile Coach with Secret Clearance

Ariel Partners; Fort Belvoir (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ariel Partners is seeking an Agile Coach to support delivery teams in adopting agile practices and Lean/Agile methodologies. This fully remote role strengthens governance, transparency, and staff coaching across an enterprise digital service delivery program.

The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of hands-on agile coaching, experience enabling agile delivery and portfolio processes, and Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach or equivalent, plus an active Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant agile coaching duties and responsibilities.
• Experience enabling agile delivery, establishing agile portfolio processes, and supporting organizational adoption of agile and lean practices.
• Ability to coach and mentor teams and stakeholders, facilitate workshops, and develop staff coaching capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Enable delivery teams to adopt agile practices and perform development activities.
• Establish processes for managing a portfolio of work using agile approaches.
• Drive strategic organizational change to support adoption of agile techniques.
• Embed an agile culture using techniques from a range of agile and lean methodologies and frameworks.
• Use coaching, advising, workshops, and mentoring to help teams and stakeholders apply relevant tools and techniques.
• Enable stakeholders to access accurate, current project and program status without disrupting delivery teams.
• Apply appropriate tools and techniques to team roles, behaviors, structure, culture, agile ceremonies and practices, and knowledge transfer and sharing.
• Support program management, cross-team coordination, and governance of digital service delivery.
• Ensure that key metrics and requirements supporting teams and delivery are well defined and maintained.
• Equip staff with the skills and ability to coach others.
• When assigned at the organizational level, coach executives on the fundamental considerations of digital service delivery design.

Skills

Agile coaching

Mentoring

Workshops

Cross-team coordination

Education

Undergraduate degree

Job description

Ariel Partners is seeking an Agile Coach to support delivery teams in adopting agile practices and Lean/Agile methodologies. This fully remote role strengthens governance, transparency, and staff coaching across an enterprise digital service delivery program.

The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of hands-on agile coaching, experience enabling agile delivery and portfolio processes, and Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach or equivalent, plus an active Secret clearance.