Agile Coach

Unclassified - Springfield, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Springfield, VA

About the position

The Agile Coach will serve as a Senior Scrum Master, guiding scrum teams through all sprints of a program increment. This role focuses on removing impediments, facilitating agile events, and promoting a collaborative team environment to enhance productivity and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Guide scrum-team through all sprints of a program increment, removing impediments and championing the team
• Organize and facilitate sprint planning and release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other agile related events
• Track and communicate team metrics and sprint/release progress to all teams and management
• Assist the scrum team in developing and estimating user stories that are clearly articulated with well-defined acceptance criteria
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Assist with internal and external communication
• Assist product owners with backlog grooming
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Determine and remove impediments that interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase velocity
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and innovation

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, and work experience
• Experience leading Agile Scrum teams in a cloud environment
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and/or software/application development processes
• Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Atlassian Agile Products; specifically, JIRA and Confluence
• Active TS/SCI clearance required to start and must be able to obtain a CI Poly

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of experience working within the DoD or IC Community
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
• Scaled Agile Framework for the enterprise (SAFe) Agilist Certification