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Agile Team Coach Senior

Job Title
Agile Team Coach Senior
Job ID
27663885
Location
McLean,  VA 22102
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Description
Hybrid Coaching Role: Must be on-site Tuesday & Thursday in McLean

Responsibilities include:
• Delivery of coaching, mentorship, facilitation, and training at the line of business, portfolio, program, and team levels in an emerging Agile environment practicing Scrum at the team level and scaling via SAFe.
• Acting as a collaborative partner and coach, participate in real-time to provide advice or assistance to teams and team members as they tackle and overcome difficult challenges and enabling people to fulfill their respective Agile responsibilities, including Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Release Train Engineer roles
• Driving continuous improvement through examples and practical experience, taught in a non-academic delivery style that encourages the adoption of agile technical practices, improving execution, communication and concurrently building group skills and capabilities.
• Coaching Agile engineering best practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI) and test automation
• Foster a collaborative yet disciplined culture within the Agile team and help them embrace the ‘whole team’ concept
• Assess the Agile maturity and skill-growth for IT Lines of Business, programs, teams and provide training, coaching and feedback as required
• Encourage the consistent use of relevant metrics that help teams see how they are doing
• Ensure that your Coaching, practices, and responses are consistent across the teams (and other Coaches) and therefore aligned with the Enterprise Agile Transformation Office
• Identify Agile people, process, and technology issues and communicate to leadership and the Enterprise Agile Transformation Office, as necessary
• Work peer-to-peer with a team of other experienced Agile Coaches to create consistency between key coaching messages and to improve coordination between Agile teams

Qualifications:
• 8 or more years of direct experience in one or more aspects of Information Technology (Software design/ development, IT Architecture or other related IT areas)
• 3 or more years of hands-on experience as an Agile Coach, preferably with large organizations adopting Scrum. Experiences limited to coaching as a Scrum Master are insufficient
• 5 or more years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or member of an Agile delivery team, preferably in a variety of situations
• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT full development life cycle
• College Degree or equivalent work experience
• Mastery of facilitation skills
• Effective coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment where priorities shift rapidly
• Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence
• Ability to operate independently within established methodologies, procedures, and guidelines
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify win-win solutions
• Proven ability to drive results, including through cross-functional teams and other non-traditional reporting structures
• Proven ability to collaborate, negotiate and positively influence management and staff across all levels of the organization
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to handle stressful situations in a calm, objective, and professional manner.

Preferred Skills:
• Background in leading and supporting practical Agile Transformation activities and Organizational Change
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or Agile Coach certifications or equivalent
• SPC certification and experience with Scaled Agile Framework highly preferred
• Hands-on experience with ALM tools such as the Atlassian suite (including JIRA)
• Experience with agile engineering (DevOps) tools such as Git, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins, and Docker
• Strong working knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Development Operations (DevOps), Continuous Integration (CI), and test automation

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.  EEO IS THE LAW CC Pace invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan.  This plan is available for inspection upon request. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us.
 

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