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Agile Coach – Level 4

The Agile Coach provides expert guidance, mentorship, and hands-on support to drive the successful adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices across software, hardware, and service domains. Agile Coaches help build a culture of agility, collaboration, and iterative learning to improve performance, productivity, and adaptability across the enterprise. Coaches support Agile adoption efforts at both the team and organizational levels, with a focus on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and other scaled Agile methodologies.

Agile Coaches may perform classified and unclassified work at multiple locations and virtually, and must be able to obtain and maintain the DOE Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance (including access to Restricted Data and designated compartments) required by the task order.

Position Summary:

The Level 4 Agile Coach provides executive-level Agile leadership coaching and influences organizational change strategies. This role drives portfolio and enterprise-level Agile maturity and helps align strategic objectives with Agile delivery. Agile Coach’s provides part-time, as-needed support for the adoption and enhancement of Agile practices within a single or multiple Scrum or Kanban team. This role requires a contractor with the flexibility to adapt to evolving program needs and schedules.

Minimum Qualifications:

+ Minimum 3 years of Agile coaching experience with a single Scrum or Kanban team.

+ Plus minimum 3 additional years of Agile coaching experience with multiple teams (at least three Scrum or Kanban teams).

+ Experience launching and improving Agile practices at the team level.

+ Experience coaching in both Scrum and Kanban environments.

+ Familiarity with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, GitLab, Azure DevOps).

+ Strong mentoring, facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills.

+ Experience launching and improving Agile practices using an Agile-at-scale framework (SAFe, LeSS, S@S, DAD, or similar)

+ Minimum 1 year of experience working with leadership to design Agile-at-scale implementations (SAFe, LeSS, S@S, DAD, or equivalent).

+ Minimum 2 years of experience coaching executives.

Key Duties:

+ Coach executives and senior leaders in Agile leadership practices.

+ Shape organizational culture and change strategies to support agility.

+ Conduct enterprise-level Agile maturity assessments.

+ Align business strategy and execution through scaled Agile adoption.

+ Influence decision-making at the highest organizational levels.

Clearance: TS/SCI is preferable