Agile Coach

Job Title

Genesis Consulting has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Agile Program with a passion for growth and business transformation.

Join our team and coach agile enterprise teams to achieve amazing results leveraging concepts of Business Agility, 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. The Agile Program Coach will lead the implementation of agile and DevOps principles and best practices using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Agile Coach is responsible for ensuring that the Agile development practices are followed and adjusted as required.
• The Agile Coach works with the team or organization to establish and adapt to Agile practices that help to ensure high quality results and a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Coaches may be required to work either at the team level, working with teams to ensure that delivery teams within agencies are adopting agile and performing effectively; at the portfolio or program level, to help agencies to establish the appropriate processes for managing a portfolio of work in an agile way; at the organization level, to drive strategic change across the organization and ensure that adoption of agile techniques is embedded from the most senior levels of the organization; or across all levels to ensure that organizations adopt a pragmatic approach to the way in which they govern delivery and continuous improvement of digital services.
• Responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:

• Must demonstrate experience designing, implementing, and leading agile coaching engagements for mid to executive level professionals, and emerging leaders.
• 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 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 implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• 5+ years delivering SAFe certification training
• 5+ years of progressive accomplishment managing and implementing large, complex information systems.
• 5+ years in an agile delivery leadership, management, or coaching role
• Previous healthcare experience is preferred
• Experience managing end-to-end projects in a public sector implementation
• 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
• 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: Minimum MS/MBA or 10+ Years of Experience Required

Certifications: SAFe SPC Certification Requires Other SAFe Certifications Preferred Scrum-certified by Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org Other: Must be US Citizen