Agile Technical Coach

Agile Technical Coach

Summary

Our client is seeking an Agile Technical Coach to serve as a change agent, influencing mindsets and behaviors, promoting psychological safety, and guiding teams through Agile maturation. This role will support Agile adoption by providing technical coaching, continuous improvement, and implementing Agile processes and practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Change Leadership - Serve as a change agent who influences mindsets and behaviors and demonstrates courage to challenge, advise, and coach teams.
• Team Coaching - Partner with the Program Agile Coach to engage and coach teams through maturation using direct coaching, expert connections, or peer guidance while maintaining an unbiased perspective and supporting psychological safety.
• Agility Culture - Foster and encourage a culture of agility, continuous improvement, and quality assurance at both team and enterprise levels.
• Technical Coaching - Employ coaching techniques to help teams address gaps in delivery processes with a strong focus on TDD, BDD, XP, secure coding, pair programming, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Training Support - Prepare materials and assist with presentations and written communications to support training and education for team members and stakeholders.
• Agile Adoption Strategy - Design strategies for adopting and scaling Agile, including introduction, education, team development, sustaining methodologies, and continuous improvement.
• Agile Education - Educate employees on Agile principles, providing tools, training sessions, and Agile thought leadership.
• Team Mentoring - Mentor teams on Agile methodology, offering feedback, answering questions, and providing hands-on support across varying roles and levels.
• Agile Process Implementation - Develop Agile processes through analysis of existing workflows, elicitation of user stories, and application of industry best practices and standards.
• Agile Practice Enablement - Implement Agile principles and practices across all levels and departments, increasing collaboration, predictability, transparency, and innovation.
• Behavioral Change Support - Motivate teams to adopt new practices by highlighting issues with the status quo, explaining benefits, and helping overcome obstacles.
• Hands-on Coaching - Help teams form new work habits through coaching, partnership, and feedback.
• Technical Guidance - Provide advice on technical direction, tools, and processes to demonstrate the value of Agile-based development.
• Continuous Improvement - Drive improvement through practical examples that encourage adoption of Agile technical practices and build team capabilities.
• Metrics Promotion - Promote appropriate metrics to demonstrate that good practices are being adopted.

Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience coaching, leading, and guiding full-scale Agile transformations as an external coach.
• More than 5 years of experience as a software lead.
• Proven experience leading and facilitating team meetings and work sessions with technical and non-technical participants at all organizational levels.
• Expertise in Scrum and Kanban Agile frameworks.
• Experience with Jira and various software/Agile tools.
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills including building trust, creating psychological safety, and consensus building.
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practices including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and automated testing.
• Versed in software delivery methodology and quality assurance processes.
• Solid understanding of Agile development techniques including TDD, BDD, and XP; experience in Agile testing practices.

Preferred

• Agile Coaching certification (e.g., Certified Team Coach or Agile Certified Professional).

This is a 12-month Contract opportunity with our Kansas City, MO, client. 100% Paid employee Medical/Dental Benefits, Paid time off, Paid Holidays, and 401(k) (with immediately-vested company match) available with TriCom during the contract period. H-1B visa sponsorship is not available for this position. No third-parties, please.

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