Senior Agile Coach: Jira & Lean-Agile Transformation

LMI Consulting, LLC; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Senior Agile Coach to support a VA engagement focused on advancing Agile delivery, Jira usage, and performance measurement through a Program Value Office (PVO). The role involves assessing current ways of working, coaching teams and leaders, and developing practical improvement plans and training.

Working across Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, and other techniques, you will tailor practices to VA needs, mentor Scrum Masters and Product Owners, facilitate workshops, and deliver Jira

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience coaching Agile teams or leading Agile adoption and improvement in complex organizations.
• Experience adapting practices across Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, or comparable approaches, with demonstrated principles‑first judgment.
• Hands‑on Jira experience with team‑level setup and administration support, including workflows, boards, filters, dashboards.
• Experience designing and delivering training and facilitating working sessions for technical teams, leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Experience defining, collecting, interpreting, and presenting Agile delivery or program‑performance metrics.
• Strong coaching, facilitation, relationship‑building, conflict‑navigation, and written and verbal communication skills across organizational levels.
• Ability to independently solve complex challenges, influence without formal authority, and mentor other practitioners.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current-state Agile maturity, team practices, planning routines, handoffs, delivery constraints, and Jira usage through interviews, observation, artifacts, and metrics.
• Develop actionable, sequenced improvement recommendations that reflect Agile principles, VA mission priorities, team capabilities, and organizational constraints.
• Coach delivery teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, managers, and stakeholders on appropriately tailored Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, and continuous improvement practices.
• Facilitate retrospectives, planning and refinement sessions, cross-team coordination workshops, leadership working sessions, and change‑adoption activities.
• Design and deliver role‑based Agile and Jira training, coaching materials, job aids, practical exercises, and knowledge‑transfer sessions.
• Provide hands‑on Jira team‑level setup and support, including boards, workflows, issue types, filters, dashboards, and related configurations within approved permissions and governance standards.
• Partner with Atlassian administrators and technical specialists when changes require platform‑wide administration, migration, integrations, or security approvals.
• Help teams connect Jira practices to clear backlog structure, work visualization, priority management, dependency visibility, and accurate, low‑burden reporting.
• Partner with the Program Value Office to define useful, interpretable metrics for flow, predictability, team health, delivery performance, adoption, and value realization.
• Analyze and communicate quantitative and qualitative findings, explaining metric limitations and avoiding measures that incentivize counterproductive behaviors.
• Guide client leaders and teams in using performance insights to make decisions, remove impediments, prioritize improvements, and test whether changes are effective.
• Support change management and organizational adoption through stakeholder engagement, feedback loops, coaching plans, and repeatable working agreements.
• Mentor less‑experienced coaches and practitioners; produce reusable playbooks, assessment instruments, training assets, and facilitation approaches.
• Collaborate with the TPM, VA stakeholders, PVO team, technical leads, and other partners; raise delivery risks and inter‑team dependencies and provide concise progress updates.

Skills

Agile coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Written & verbal communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Jira

Jira administration

Atlassian tools

Job description

LMI is seeking a Senior Agile Coach to support a VA engagement focused on advancing Agile delivery, Jira usage, and performance measurement through a Program Value Office (PVO). The role involves assessing current ways of working, coaching teams and leaders, and developing practical improvement plans and training.

Working across Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, and other techniques, you will tailor practices to VA needs, mentor Scrum Masters and Product Owners, facilitate workshops, and deliver Jira