What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Coach position at Highbury Defense Group, an Accelint company?
Description
Description
This person will analyze our organization’s existing infrastructure and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies. Ultimately, the agile coach will play a key role in long-term strategy across the business, helping our programs deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.
Objectives of this role
Requirements
We’re an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international la
Description
This person will analyze our organization’s existing infrastructure and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies. Ultimately, the agile coach will play a key role in long-term strategy across the business, helping our programs deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.
Objectives of this role
- Work with project and program teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for adopting agile best practices
- Guide teams in how to stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning their approach to ensure that overall strategy is being met
- Lead agile workshops for developer and functional teams, as well as for key stakeholders and leadership
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and assigning responsibility
- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset, and ensure the organization is adhering to industry best practices
- Assist development of the Agile Center of Excellence (ACE) to include training within the team
Requirements
- Experience with DoD Program Executive Office or NAVWAR Headquarters experience
- Five or more years of experience as agile coach
- Experience in leading an Agile Transformation
- Experience in using scrum, kanban, and scaled agile framework (SAFe)
- Track record of implementing agile techniques in different work cultures and environments
- Experience in running agile projects of varying size and complexity
- Experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- Strong skills for leading, educating, and coaching
- SPC 6.0
- Certification as agile coach or scrum master
- Experience in coaching at large organizations or Fortune 500 companies
- Educational background in computer science
- Experience with JIRA
- Experience with SharePoint
We’re an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international la
Salary : $101,000 - $140,000