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