Job Title: Sr. Program Manager (Agile Transformation Coach)
Remote Washington, DC| Quarterly Travel for PI Planning events along the Northeast corridor
Contract
Special Skillset:
- Be an active Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) 6 with experience delivering and certifying SAFe 6 courses using SAFe Collaborate: SA, SP, RTE, SSM, SASM, SDP, APM, LPM, POPM, ARCH, ASE, SGP
- Collaborate with stakeholders and leadership to institute ORK framework for measuring progress and effectiveness at all levels
- Help drive adoption of end-to-end Agile transformation strategy with Lean-Agile ways of working and SAFe as a cornerstone
- Advise on operating models and transformation governance
- Be a certified AgiltyHelath Facilitator (AHF) and perform AgilityHealth maturity assessments & recommend strategies to address growth items
- Expert in coaching, training, and mentoring roles from leadership to teams on their respective functions within SAFe
- Act as role model embodying Agile values, principles, and demonstrating success patterns
- Actively facilitate and coach LPM and ART events
- Support Agile tooling administration, strategy, and adoption: SAFe for Enterprise, AgilityHealth, Atlassian Cloud Enterprise (Jira/Confluence), etc.
- Help identify and coach champions within functional areas who can evangelize Agile and act as local mentors/coaches in their area
- Develop Lean-Agile training materials and deliver content for and to both existing teams and the onboarding of new talent
- Help launch and mature Communities of Practices and interaction/pollination across DT and the business
- Raise recurring/widely observed issues and bottlenecks to stakeholders; develops and implements comprehensive solutions.
- Coach organization through change, helping identify and attack organizational impediments which limit team productivity and quality
- Help develop and monitor metrics to track Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts
- Create an environment that values and promotes autonomy, skill mastery, empowerment, transparency, innovation, learning
- Foster a fail-safe, fail-fast environment where experiments lead to the best solution
- Promote lean thinking principles such as reduced cycle times, limiting work in progress, reduced batch size, understanding of flow, identification of waste/inefficiencies and leading remediation efforts.
To qualify you must have:
- SAFe 6 Practice Consultant (SPC) Certification & Enablements
- 6 or more years’ experience coaching agile teams
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working in engineering, IT, or a related field
- 3+ years’ experience guiding Agile portfolios, product lines, and budgeting
- Experience transitioning waterfall Project Management Lifecyle to Agile Product Delivery in complex, highly regulated environment
- Experience with 2 large scale (150+ people impacted) Agile transformation efforts
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, AgilityHealth, SAFe Enterprise
- Proven ability to think strategically, and to communicate strategy to large organization
- Substantial experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, SAFe, XP, DevSecOps
- Familiarity with infrastructure concepts to facilitate delivery of DevOps components of the Agile Transformation
- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills
- Active engagement in external agile and product communities with a network of professional contacts outside of the organization
Regards
Infojini Inc