Agile Coach

Job#: 3027840

Job Description:
Agile Coach

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (On-site)

Employment Type: Contract

Duration; 12 months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, Director-level Technical Coach to drive engineering excellence and productivity across our organization. This role requires a seasoned technologist who will act as a trusted advisor and mentor to both technical leadership and individual engineering pods. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between high-level productivity methodologies and ground-level technical execution, serving as a catalyst for higher quality code, reduced technical debt, and accelerated delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide development teams through the practical adoption and maturation of test management automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tooling.
• Advise teams on strategic approaches to refactoring, reducing legacy technical debt, and implementing standards that produce higher-quality, resilient code.
• Align productivity methodologies with modern engineering practices like test-driven development and shift-left testing.
• Transition between coaching individual teams on tactical engineering challenges and advising senior leadership on large-scale technical strategy.
• Design, develop, and deliver training programs, workshops, and playbooks to scale engineering best practices and tooling adoption.
• Act as a change agent, building buy-in from engineering teams and overcoming resistance to new tools or methodologies.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in software development, engineering leadership, or technical architecture.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps concepts using GitHub, Jenkins, XL Release, and Ansible Tower.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience leading and executing test automation frameworks, including TDD and BDD.
• Proven track record in a Director-level, Principal, or Senior Coaching capacity within a large-scale, complex enterprise environment.
• Extensive experience implementing strategies to measure, manage, and pay down technical debt at scale.

Technical Skills:

• Test automation tools: nUnit/xUnit, Selenium, and SonarQube.
• Modern CI/CD pipeline tooling: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Celestial, Ansible, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.

Key Attributes

• Possess superb communication and interpersonal skills to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Command respect from engineering teams due to an extensive hands-on technical background.
• Ability to design a multi-year enterprise tooling strategy while also being able to troubleshoot specific team workflow bottlenecks.

Compensation & Benefits

The pay range for this position is $90.00 to $95.07 per hour. Please note that a more specific rate will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.