Agile Coach, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton • McLean, VA

2d

About The Position

Agile Coach, Lead The Opportunity: Are you a data professional ready to join a dynamic team cracking the government’s most exhilarating data puzzles? Do you enjoy partnering with decision-makers to gather and analyze requirements and develop solutions that aid with control costs, ensure accountability, anticipate the future, measure performance, and maintain optimal operations? We are currently seeking a dynamic and skilled Agile Coach to join our team. As an Agile Coach, you will play a crucial part facilitating agile processes, promoting collaboration, and removing obstacles to ensure efficient and successful project delivery while executing mission critical work. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required. How You'll Contribute: Apply functional and technical knowledge to achieve scrum goals, contributing to solutions for moderate scope and complex problems. Facilitate scrum events, including daily standups, sprint events, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, to ensure effective communication and collaboration within the team. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and communication between team members and stakeholders. Guide and coach team on Agile principles, practices, and ceremonies to foster continuous improvement. Assist the Product Owner in refining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure it is well-groomed and ready for upcoming sprints. Identify and address impediments and roadblocks that hinder team progress and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve them. Continuously improve the team’s processes and practices by implementing agile techniques and suggesting adaptations as needed. Support a culture of transparency, collaboration and open communication among the team members and stakeholders. Affect change and excels in managing stakeholders to recalibrate expectations as needed. If you are passionate about leveraging your scrum master or project management skills and working with cutting-edge technologies to enable efficient data analysis, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and be a part of our mission to provide streamlined and rapid access to critical information. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Project Manager, including managing projects, processes, and teams delivering web-based systems
• 2+ years of experience with Jira product Administration and Jira Service Desk configuration, maintaining and supporting workflows schemes, permission schemes, notification schemes, and screen schemes
• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Agile at Scale, such as SAFe or DAD, Cloud computing, and DoD security requirements
• Experience in Jira service desk administration, customizations, mapping, and automating complex workflows for role-based access control
• Experience writing custom conditions, validations and post functions using ScriptRunner for Jira and automation for Jira
• Experience with managing a technical product portfolio, leading a technical team of 20+ staff, and creating and delivering client briefings and status reports
• Knowledge of Jira Query Language (JQL), including dynamic dashboards and reporting
• Knowledge of program activities using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, pay strict attention to detail, and be committed to delivering high-quality results
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the DoD or IC
• Experience with large-scale programs worth over $1M annually for government clients
• Experience with Advana
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication and collaboration skills
• PMP certification, Agile Coaching certification, and AWS certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Apply functional and technical knowledge to achieve scrum goals, contributing to solutions for moderate scope and complex problems.
• Facilitate scrum events, including daily standups, sprint events, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, to ensure effective communication and collaboration within the team.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and communication between team members and stakeholders.
• Guide and coach team on Agile principles, practices, and ceremonies to foster continuous improvement.
• Assist the Product Owner in refining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure it is well-groomed and ready for upcoming sprints.
• Identify and address impediments and roadblocks that hinder team progress and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Continuously improve the team’s processes and practices by implementing agile techniques and suggesting adaptations as needed.
• Support a culture of transparency, collaboration and open communication among the team members and stakeholders.
• Affect change and excels in managing stakeholders to recalibrate expectations as needed.

Benefits

• At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
• Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees