Senior SAFe Agile Coach - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title: Senior SAFe Agile Coach - Remote / Telecommute

Job Location: Reston, VA

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $75.30hr - $80.30hr

Job Overview:

The candidate serves as a strategic change agent who champions enterprise-wide lean agile enablement and transformation. The candidate drives continuous improvement across the organization through the use of Agile, Scrum and Lean values/practices and servant leadership. The successful candidate is comfortable working at all levels (team, stakeholder, and organizational leadership) to help the organization use Lean Agile as a strategic asset for culture change and business value generation. The candidate creates and nurtures a culture of continuous learning, growth mindset and agile maturity at the enterprise level by partnering with stakeholders at various levels and through Lean Agile coaching. The candidate influences leaders and associates in the enterprise to be Lean-Agile Leaders demonstrating a Lean-Agile Mindset.

Essential Functions:

The candidate champions enterprise-wide lean agile adoption and continued improvement across the organization. Comfortable working at all levels (team, stakeholder, and organizational leadership) to help the organization use Lean Agile as a strategic asset for culture change and business value generation. The candidate works with peers and management to define and refine the enterprise agile vision, drives the organization-wide lean agile enablement/transformation strategy and roadmap. The successful candidate develops, implements and improves lean-agile metrics and supports roll out. The candidate continuously improves enterprise lean agile practices and enhances or develops training materials. The candidate works with stakeholders to understand the flow of value across the enterprise, identifies and removes enterprise level blockers that impact business agility.

g. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban etc). The candidate works with the teams to mature their agile mindset, practices, and ceremonies, and coaches the key roles to achieve business results. The candidate helps teams improve predictability, productivity, quality, and flow. The successful candidate supports and guides efforts to bring transparency across the organization and the stakeholders. The candidate drives the journey towards high performing teams by creating psychological safety and trust to enable self-managing teams, transparency, team empowerment and continuous learning. The candidate helps identify Value Streams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), prepares the teams for ART launch, trains teams and leadership, coaches ART execution, and helps drive continuous improvement at the ART level. The candidate should have experience applying SAFe and Agile/product mindset to creating and sustaining Platform teams.

The candidate organizes workshops and presentations that help promote agile maturity across the organization. The candidate conducts training which includes, but is not limited to, the areas of release planning, backlog grooming, story writing, roles and responsibilities, the ceremonies of Scrum, Kanban and technical best-practices; product management teams, Scrum masters and other roles.

The candidate remains current with industry trends in order to identify characteristics of high performing teams/organizations and to help improve business agility within the enterprise.

Education Level:

Bachelor s Degree in Business Administration or a related field. In lieu of a Bachelor s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Experience:

10+ years or equivalent in the use of Lean and Agile methodologies. Proven success leading large-scale Agile transformation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Five plus years coaching and training teams in SAFe Agile enablement and transformation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

• Expert knowledge of Lean and Agile principles and practices.
• Expert knowledge of lean/agile theory, different methodologies like SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps; practices, and ceremonies.
• Knowledge of Product management, DevOps, Test automation, and other supporting functions required for delivering business value like infrastructure, InfoSec, and Architecture.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs and industry standard Agile tools.
• Ability to organize data and generate comprehensive reports.
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Self-starter with an ability to prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines.
• Ability to drive change at all levels and manage conflicts constructively.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Active SPC certification and training experience is mandatory.
• Certified SAFe Program Consultant.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSP).
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) preferred.
• IC Agile ICP-ACC preferred.
• Certified Scrum Professional preferred.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities