Agile Coach

General Dynamics•Falls Church, VA

49d•Remote

About The Position

The Agile Coach will support the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), enabling large-scale Agile and SAFe adoption across multiple Scrum and DevSecOps teams. This role provides hands-on coaching, training, and facilitation to teams, Product Owners, and leadership to strengthen Agile maturity and delivery performance across the CMM Dev modernization initiative. The Agile Coach ensures that Lean-Agile principles, collaboration, and continuous improvement practices are embedded into the culture of the program to drive consistent and predictable outcomes.

Requirements

14+ years of IT program or product delivery experience, including 10+ years as an Agile Coach in large-scale or federal modernization programs.
Proven expertise implementing SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks in multi-team Agile environments.
Strong experience in Agile transformation and scaling practices within regulated or compliance-driven organizations.
Deep understanding of Agile metrics, team dynamics, and servant leadership.
Experience mentoring teams and leadership to adopt Lean-Agile values and continuous improvement mindsets.
Familiarity with Agile tools such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, or VersionOne.
Excellent facilitation, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business, or related field (Master's preferred).
Experience in federal Agile environments with multiple vendors and distributed teams.
Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD practices, and cloud-native delivery workflows (React/NodeJS, AWS).
Familiarity with organizational change management and Agile coaching models (ICAgile, SAFe, Lean).
Background in performance improvement and transformation consulting
12+ years of general experience in information systems
10+ years of specialized experience
Minimum Education: MA/MS
Excellent presentation and communication (oral and written) skills.
Consultant mindset with the ability to work with high level customer stakeholders and build excellent customer relationship.
Experience identifying and applying industry tools, solutions, methods best practices, and emerging technologies.
Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills with the ability to formulate and communicate recommendations for improvement.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team.

Nice To Haves

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) - preferred.
PMP or PMI-ACP - advantageous.
ICAgile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC or ICP-ATF) - beneficial.

Responsibilities

Lead and guide Agile transformation efforts across development, testing, and cloud engineering teams supporting CMM modernization.
Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and cross-functional teams on Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices to ensure consistent adoption.
Facilitate Agile ceremonies (daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, backlog refinement, PI Planning) as needed to model effective execution.
Develop and deliver Agile training materials, playbooks, and best-practice frameworks tailored to the CMM App Dev environment.
Partner with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and program leadership to align Agile practices with federal delivery and compliance standards.
Identify, track, and resolve organizational impediments that hinder Agile adoption or team performance.
Conduct Agile maturity assessments and provide recommendations for improvement across teams and program functions.
Collaborate with leadership to define and implement metrics and KPIs to measure Agile performance, team health, and value delivery.
Support implementation of continuous improvement and DevSecOps-aligned Agile processes in coordination with Architecture, Cloud, and QA teams.
Foster a culture of servant leadership, empowerment, transparency, and collaboration within all CMM development teams.

Benefits

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

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