Senior Agile Coach

Genesis Consulting

• has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Senior Agile
• Coach with a passion for growth and business transformation for a Federal
• client in the Washington, DC/Columbia, MD area. Join our team and work on
• challenging, complex solutions that are driving innovation and technology
• advancement in the local community.Work
• with teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers leveraging
• concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe. Our clients are some of the world’s
• leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to
• build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and

Responsibilities

• The Senior Agile Coach will focus on
• assessing the agile maturity (currently basic scrum teams) and build a plan to
• address agile growth areas. Other duties include but may not be limited to:
• Demonstrate experience
• designing, implementing, and leading agile coaching engagements for mid to
• executive level professionals, and emerging leaders
• Must have strong communications
• skills to be able to influence client leadership into Lean Agile thinking
• Coach Portfolio, Program, and
• Team levels with implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Support portfolio and program
• management processes and stakeholders to improve Lean-Agile product management workflow
• Help Epic owners with capability
• and feature decomposition, developing acceptance criteria and testable
• specifications, and provide analysis of common vs. unique capabilities and
• features across services and benefit types
• Lead release planning activities,
• including developing capability maps, feature maps, and story maps that support
• rapid releases of minimum viable products and incremental delivery of
• enhancements
• Lead retrospectives and process
• improvement efforts to improve overall throughput and decrease lead time from
• prioritization to delivery/release
• Support senior decision-makers
• with plans, reports, metrics, analyses, and recommendations
• Lead the planning for agile
• transformation and coaching activities, including schedules and coaching
• implementation plans that incorporate the Coaches’ approach of guidance,
• instruction, and direction provided to ensure implementation and sustainment of
• the Agile approach, and monthly status reports
• Deliver and support workshops
• and training as required on topics such as Lean, Agile, DevSecOps, Lean UX,
• Design Thinking, and related topics
• Review current business
• practices, principles and processes and conduct business gap analysis on
• programs to define current ‘as-is’ business practices and outline path toward ‘to-be’
• agile practices to be formulated as recommendations for government
• implementation
• Assist program personnel in
• applying and adapting agile processes throughout the programs, identify and
• report risks and issues that constrain programs and agile teams from
• effectively and quickly delivering business value, and lead coaching meetings
• with branch and division managers to support business improvement practices
• within the organization

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience and/or complex systems
• development
• 7+ years’ experience using Agile principles,
• practices, and methodologies such as Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe on technical
• projects
• 5+ years of Agile Transformation experience
• 5+ years of progressive accomplishment managing and
• implementing large, complex information systems.
• 5+ years in an agile delivery leadership,
• management, or coaching role
• Experience with the AgilityHealth tool is preferred
• Proven leadership ability in dynamic agile
• environment working with executive and senior-level stakeholders
• Impeccable professionalism and strong communication
• skills
• Humble and results-oriented servant leader with
• team-first mentality who follows through on commitments
• Background in process improvement, business process
• reengineering, and
• Comfortable leading and facilitating backlog
• refinement, release planning, retrospective, demos, and project status meetings

Experience planning strategic initiatives including

• developing operating models, plans, associated communications and graphics, and
• related supporting documentation
• Comfortable consulting with and coaching senior
• management and executives

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s Degree Required

Required Certifications

Scrum-certified by Scrum

Alliance or Scrum.org

SAFe Certifications Preferred

Other

• Must be US Citizen
• Remote work is accepted until
• the client determines on-site work is necessary