Digital Agility Coach

Job Title: Digital Agility Coach

Location: Washington, DC/ Remote

Duration: 12 Months

Skillset Summary:

The Digital Agility Coach is a servant leader and coach for an Agile Team and supports the team and ART in delivering value. They help mature the Agile Team through Agile values, principles, and success patterns. They facilitate impediment removal and foster an environment for high-performing teams.

Essential Functions:

Coach teams in self-organization and guide teams towards higher maturity

Expert knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts including definition of done, user story refinement, automated testing, backlog refinement, and PI Planning

Supports team members in resolving conflicts, problem-solving, and decision-making

Persuades rather than uses authority as servant leader

Support team member development, helping them gain a continuous learning mindset

Help the team provide transparency by ensuring information radiators are updated

Coach and train the team on methods beyond Scrum, such as SAFe, Kanban, Flow, Built-in Quality, BDD, and more

Prepare for the team for PI Planning

Facilitate Iteration events to plan, sync, review, inspect work, and retrospect

Work within the ART s cadence and synchronization to ensure alignment, dependency management, Release on Demand, and fast integrated learning cycles

Collaborate with the PO to help maximize the solution s value

Establish the team Kanban board to visualize their work and enhance flow

Measure and optimize flow, competency, and outcomes (OKR) metrics to assess and improve overall performance

Coach Built-in Quality practices to enable fast, reliable execution

Foster and support Agile Team attributes of self-management and collective; Alignment and collaboration focused on clear goals and purpose; transparent communication and trust; foster fun

Encourage high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement

Actively work to become a more effective Scrum Master/Team Coach

Serve the team and the larger organization supporting the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching stakeholders and non-agile teams on effective interactions with Agile Teams

Participate in CoPs, and support SAFe Practice Consultants (SPC)

Serve as Lean-Agile Leader modeling the mindset, values, and principles for others

Help the team acquire T-shaped skills

Facilitate cross-team collaboration to bring whole product solutions to market

Represent the team in all ART events and attend other team s events as necessary

Build trust between team and stakeholders for improved alignment and reliable, predictable forecasting

Coach the IP Iteration to ensure the team does not schedule any work for the IP Iteration and foster time for innovation, continuing education, PI planning, and the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum of 5+ years as a Scrum Master/Team Coach in large enterprise

Bachelor s degree or equivalent combination of related work experience/schooling

Expert in Jira Software, Confluence, FigJam, Jira Align, AgilityInsights

SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master Certification (Required)

Must have excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills

SAFe SASM 6.0, SAFe SPC 6.0, SAFe SA 6.0, SAFe RTE 6.0, CSM, SAFe Studio Experience, ICAgile (preferred)

About IDEXCEL, INC
Idexcel is an IT services organization, with a mission to bring great people and great organizations together. Our diverse client base represents a wide range of industries, including technology, telecom, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, banking & financial services, food & commodities trading and federal organizations. Our teams of experienced recruiters directly work with client companies seeking exceptional people to help with their business initiatives. Idexcel, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.