Agile Coach Lead

Agile Coach Lead The Opportunity: Provides expertise and leadership for agile software development projects and team. Applies leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts and contributes to the development of new principles and concepts. Works on unusually complex problems and provides highly innovative solutions. Operates with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision. Mentors or supervises employees in both company and technical competencies. As our Agile Coach, you'll coach and coordinate the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practice. This team of 100 staff are organized into Kanban and Scrum teams, each with Scrum Masters and Business Analysts, who will report to you. Your role is to build our Agile practice from the ground up, then run it and adapt it.

Evangelize Agile principles. Coach and manage the ICAM Scrum Master and Business Analysts across all product workstreams, standardizing ceremonies, definitions of done, and Jira tracking practices. Own program-level Agile governance and requirements-traceability practices, using a structured intake, decomposition, and validation model. Escalate and resolve cross-team dependencies affecting sprint delivery across the ICAM workstreams. Partner with the ICAM Product Owner and Program Manager on release planning, roadmap updates, and Quarterly Program Review inputs. Drive continuous improvement of Agile maturity across the program, including retrospective trend analysis and coaching for underperforming teams relative to a 90% sprint-completion target. Leverage IA intelligently to drive efficiency and quality of output and automate tasks wherever appropriate. Develop and consistently use ways of working which allow Agents and automated processes to effectively assist. Join us. The world can't wait. You Have: 5+ years of experience with Agile delivery 3+ years of experience coaching or leading multiple Scrum teams concurrently Experience standardizing Agile practice across a multi-team IT or cybersecurity program Experience with Jira administration and Agile-metrics and reporting Public Trust Bachelor's degree ICAgile Professional Certification Nice If You Have: Experience coaching Agile teams delivering identity, access management, or cybersecurity products Experience with scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe) in a federal environment Experience using AI agents to build things Vetting: Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client; Public Trust determination is required.

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