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DIGITAL HARBOR, Inc.
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Agile/DevOps Coach
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,000 - $125,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
About the role
- The Agile Coach will act as part of a PMO to help project team and Division staff manage tasks and artifacts to complete projects and concurrently transition to a more Agile mindset and tools.
- He or she will work with a team to identify key stakeholders and change agents and mentor them in order to develop sustainable Agile skills while supporting team and Division project operations.
- The Lead will interact with technical staff, senior leadership, and other stakeholders.
- Work in an Agile, cross-functional role supporting PMO in a high-visibility client environment.
- Establish project controls, tracking mechanism(s), Kanban or Scrum boards, reports, data exports, and workflows for client projects and work streams as necessary.
- Develop and track performance metrics for client delivered services.
- Act as “translator” to help technical security professionals convey project management information to leadership and management in a polished, executive-level manner.
- Assess existing project teams to determine their level of Agile capability and use the data to set goals and tailor training and coaching plans.
- Partner with Agile Coaches to Coach teams (with members at varying levels of Agile understanding and proficiency) on Agile fundamentals and help them implement Agile ceremonies, identify the roles, and manage the necessary artifacts using Jira.
- Facilitate team Agile events and meetings remotely.
- Identify stakeholders and change agents, and mentor them in order to develop sustainable Agile skills, providing Jira training to all levels of the organization.
- Communicate teams’ transformation progress via periodic updates to management, highlighting successes, risks, areas of improvement, and suggested resolutions.
- Act as a thought leader in the Agile space.
- Gather and provide data to help facilitate team discussions.
- Record written notes for all substantive meetings and publish them in Confluence as appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor's with 8+ years (or commensurate experience)
- At least 2 years of experience working on an Agile team as either a coach, scrum master, product owner, developer, tester, etc. or some combination of these roles
- Minimum 1 year working in a pure Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, DevOps) using Jira
- Minimum 1 year coaching, training, or mentoring personnel on Agile tools such as Jira
- Experience in Agile IT delivery
- Experience working with Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) including all aspects of configuration, workflow creation, administration, exports, and reporting
- Demonstrated experience with Agile risk management techniques
- Demonstrated experience successfully working in a disparately located team
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and supervision
- Agile experience required
- Candidate must possess strong communication (oral/written) skills, and strong organization skills
- Must be able to make and maintain effective relationships in a remote work environment.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Corporate Discounts
- Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content
- Training, Education and Certification Assistance
- Referral Bonus Program
- Internal Mobility Program
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible Work Environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AgileScrumKanbanSAFeDevOpsJiraAgile risk managementAgile coachingAgile trainingAgile metrics
Soft skills
communicationorganizationmentoringrelationship buildingindependenceleadershipfacilitationteam collaborationexecutive communicationthought leadership
