Agile Coach

Ampcus Inc.•Reston, VA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly motivated Agile Coach to serve as a strategic change agent, championing enterprise-wide lean agile enablement and transformation. This role drives continuous improvement across the organization using Agile, Scrum, and Lean values, practices, and servant leadership. The Agile Coach will be comfortable working at all levels (team, stakeholder, and organizational leadership) to help the organization leverage Lean Agile as a strategic asset for culture change and business value generation. They will create and nurture a culture of continuous learning, growth mindset, and agile maturity at the enterprise level by partnering with stakeholders and providing Lean Agile coaching, influencing leaders and associates to embody a Lean-Agile Mindset.

Requirements

Expert knowledge of Lean, Agile principles and practices.
Expert knowledge of lean/agile theory, different methodologies like SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps; practices, ceremonies, etc.
Knowledge of Product management, DevOps, Test automation, and other supporting functions required for delivering business value like Infrastructure, InfoSec, Architecture etc.
Proficient in Microsoft Office programs and industry standard Agile tools.
Ability to organize data and generate comprehensive reports.
Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Self-starter with an ability to prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines.
Ability to drive change at all levels, manage conflicts constructively.
The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related field.
10 years or equivalent in the use of Lean, Agile methodologies.
Proven success leading large-scale Agile transformation.
In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Nice To Haves

Certified SAFe® Program Consultant Upon Hire.
Certified Scrum Master (CSP) Upon Hire Req.
Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) Upon Hire Req.
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) ® Upon Hire Pref.
IC Agile ICP-Client Upon Hire Pref.
Certified Scrum Professional Upon Hire Pref.
Five plus years coaching and training teams in SAFe Agile enablement and transformation.

Responsibilities

Champions enterprise-wide lean agile adoption and continued improvement across the organization.
Works with peers and management to define and refine the enterprise agile vision, drives the organization-wide lean agile enablement/transformation strategy and roadmap.
Develops, implements, and improves lean-agile metrics, and supports roll out.
Continuously improves enterprise lean agile practices and enhances/develops training materials.
Works with stakeholders to understand the flow of value across the enterprise, identifies and removes enterprise-level blockers that impact business agility.
Provides coaching to teams and programs on all aspects of Lean Agile and helps them decide team and program level frameworks (e.g. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban etc).
Works with the teams to mature their agile mindset, practices, ceremonies, and coaches the key roles to achieve business results.
Helps teams improve predictability, productivity, quality, flow etc.
Supports and guides efforts to bring transparency across the organization and the stakeholders.
Drives the journey towards high performing team/program by creating psychological safety and trusts to enable self-managing teams, transparency, team empowerment and continuous learning.
Helps identify Value Streams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), prepares the teams for ART launch, trains teams and leadership, coaches ART execution, and helps drive continuous improvement at the ART level.
Experience applying SAFe and Agile/product mindset to creating and sustaining Platform teams.
Organizes workshops and presentations that help promote agile maturity across the organization.
Conducts training which includes, but is not limited to, the areas of release planning, backlog grooming, story writing, roles and responsibilities, the ceremonies of Scrum, Kanban and technical best-practices, product management teams, Scrum masters and other roles.
Remains current with industry trends to identify characteristics of high performing teams/organizations and to help improve business agility within the enterprise.