Senior Agile Coach for Enterprise SAFe Transformation

Cgsfederal; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision

Life Insurance

401k

FSA

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Contact Government Services, LLC is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to lead the transformation across multiple teams within a federal domain. The role focuses on Agile, Product-focus, and DevSecOps to improve efficiency and delivery of IT initiatives.

You will facilitate workshops, coach Scrum Masters and Product Owners, implement SAFe practices, and help establish boards, backlogs, and metrics while embedding an Agile culture across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of practical Agile experience, with SAFe emphasis.
• Hands-on experience launching Agile Release Trains and PI Planning.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change across multiple teams.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and security-focused software delivery.

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.

Skills

Agile coaching

DevSecOps

SAFe

Scrum Kanban

Education

Master’s degree or higher in IT

Tools

GitHub

Containerization

Everything as code

Zero-trust

Job description

Contact Government Services, LLC is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to lead the transformation across multiple teams within a federal domain. The role focuses on Agile, Product-focus, and DevSecOps to improve efficiency and delivery of IT initiatives.

You will facilitate workshops, coach Scrum Masters and Product Owners, implement SAFe practices, and help establish boards, backlogs, and metrics while embedding an Agile culture across the enterprise.