Agile Coach

Title: Agile Coach II
Duration: 12 Months Long Term
Location: Washington, DC 20433
Hybrid Onsite: 4 Days onsite per week from Day1
Position Overview:
The Agile Coach plays a critical role in supporting the organization s Agile transformation by directly coaching teams, mentoring Agile practitioners, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance. This role focuses on applying Agile principles at the team and program levels, building Agile capabilities across the organization, and helping teams mature in their Agile practices in alignment with ITS SAFe standards.
Essential Job Functions:
Coach Agile Teams:

• Provide hands-on coaching to Agile teams to adopt and improve Agile practices, principles, and mindset.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and guide teams through sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning.

Build Agile Capability:

• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members to develop strong Agile capabilities.
• Train and develop other Agile coaches to build internal coaching capacity.

Promote Agile Maturity and Continuous Improvement:

• Conduct Agile maturity assessments and identify areas for improvement.
• Use metrics to track team performance and coaching impact.

Collaborate Across Teams and Programs:

• Work with Release Train Engineers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to align Agile practices across programs ensuring consistency of practice.
• Participate in Communities of Practice to share knowledge and align coaching standards.

Requirement to adhere to ITS SAFe standards.
Educational Qualifications and Experience:

• Education: Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Software development, Marketing, Organizational Change Management or proven related experience as an expert in the relevant areas specified or as an advisor for a large company.
• Demonstrated experience as a team-level or Agile Coaching required.

Certification Requirements:

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Mandatory
• SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) Mandatory
• SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) Preferred
• SAFe Agile Product Management (APM) Preferred
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) Mandatory
• Prosci Change Management Certification Mandatory
• Other Advanced Agile certifications

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proven technical skills in Agile at Scale, Agile Standards, Agile Transformation Execution, Coaching Metrics and Reporting and Agile Tooling.
• Strong business skills in Business Objective Alignment, Coaching Strategy, Coaching Roadmap, Communities of Practice, and Root Cause Analysis
• Excellent adaptable skills in Coaching Oversight, Coaching Support, Foster Agile Mindset, Coaching Impact, and Technical Debt Management.
• Ability to provide vision, anticipate problems, and offer problem resolution.
• Strong diplomatic, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization.

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”