Strong fit for experienced agile practitioners who lead transformations and coach product teams, with a preference for those in US SBA HUBZone areas and capable of remote collaboration.
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Original posting from Hatch IT via Lever
hatch I.T. is partnering with an IT consulting and professional services company to find a Senior Agile Transformation Coach. See details below:
About the Role:
The company is part of a team leading an agile operating model transformation for an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) division. You will be embedded alongside your coaching team full-time with the client, working with military and civilian leaders inside secure program spaces to build agile practices the division can sustain after the engagement ends.
This is a shoulder-to-shoulder coaching role. You will model agile practices directly, coach leaders and teams through real program work, and contribute to assessments, workshops, playbooks, and training as part of a structured, release-based roadmap. The initial engagement runs approximately six months with potential for follow-on work.
This position is contingent upon contract award.
Responsibilities::
As a Senior Agile Transformation Coach, you will be one of three coaches embedded full time with the client, coaching leaders and teams through real program work and building a capability the division can sustain after the engagement ends.
- Provide daily, in-person coaching to division leaders, Branch Chiefs, Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads, and first-line supervisors on iterative systems engineering and acquisition practices•
- Support the baseline assessment, including administering the organization-wide agility survey and conducting stakeholder interviews across ranks, civilian grades, and contractor roles
- Co-facilitate senior leadership workshops that produce a co-owned improvement backlog, a transformation vision, and a transformation roadmap
- Coach the Transformation Leadership Team and the joint Government and contractor transformation team on working agreements, backlog management, and agile ceremonies
- Deliver scaffolded training and coaching in which each skill builds on competencies validated in the prior release
- Coach reference model structures and teams of teams through launch and their first operational delivery cycles, including division-level prioritization and execution cycles
- Help teams identify, escalate, and resolve impediments, including airworthiness, security, and contracting bottlenecks, and clearly explain their impact in plain language
- Capture and document early wins and program acceleration metrics
- Contribute to playbooks, standard operating procedures, and governance documentation for replication across other branches, and help transition enablement to the division’s internal Agile Enablement Office
- Support the engagement lead with strategic planning, release planning, release review materials, and monthly brief content
- Build trust and collaborative relationships among leaders, program managers, chief engineers, and teams
Requirements::
- US citizenship and an active SECRET security clearance at start of work, with the ability to maintain it and obtain a Common Access Card (CAC)
- Able to work 100% on-site at Hanscom AFB, MA, Monday through Friday, with occasional travel to other client locations
- At least 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree (or an Associate’s degree plus 14 years, or 16 years of relevant experience)
- Experience leading or coaching large agile programs, typically involving 30 to 75 people, including launching and coaching teams of teams (Agile Release Trains or equivalent)
- Experience coaching agile transformations, preferably in DoD or other highly regulated, high-consequence environments
- Documented experience implementing or scaling frameworks grounded in the Agile Manifesto
- Expertise in agile and lean approaches applied to business process modernization and to systems engineering, hardware and software co-development, or test and certification cycles
- Experience interacting with senior clients at a supervisory level and directing multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience participating in strategic planning and supporting program planning and budget activities
- Experience conducting organizational assessments and surveys and turning the results into business
- process improvements
- Excellent facilitation skills, including leadership workshops, backlog development and refinement sessions, and problem-solving workshops
- Hands-on practice with Scrum and Kanban, and working knowledge of scaled approaches such as Scrum@Scale or SAFe
- Effective coach: excellent communicator , exudes patience, and loves to teach others
- Ability to maintain composure in the face of challenges and propose logical approaches to address issues
- Good written and oral communication skills, including executive briefings
- Strongly preferred: Scrum@Scale Practitioner , Registered Scrum Master , Registered Product Owner , or SAFe (SPC, RTE) certifications; PMP or PgMP is a plus
- Strongly preferred: experience with Air Force or DoD acquisition, systems engineering, or airworthiness
- processes
- Strongly preferred: lives in a US SBA HUBZone ( )
Source: Hatch IT careers (Lever)