Our Client is building a culture based on modern software delivery practices to support the secondary mortgage market through rapid technology and best practice innovation.
As a member of our Client's Enterprise Agile Practice, the Agile Team Coach is embedded within the organization to provide agile thought leadership across initiatives along with other Team Coaches and Scrum Masters on scaling agile development, DevOps practices, servant leadership, and modeling behaviors to enable teams to deliver high value results against the most complex business and technology initiatives.
Basic Requirements:
- 8 or more years of direct experience in one or more aspects of Information Technology (Software design/ development, IT Architecture or other related IT areas)
- 5 or more years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or member of an Agile delivery team, preferably in a variety of situations/roles
- 3 or more years of hands-on experience as an Agile Coach, preferably with large organizations adopting Scrum. Experiences limited to coaching as a Scrum Master are insufficient
- Hands-on experience coaching an Agile program/Agile release train.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT full development life cycle
- College Degree or equivalent work experience
- Mastery of facilitation skills
- Effective coaching and mentoring skills
- Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast paced environment where priorities shift rapidly
- Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence
- Ability to operate independently within established methodologies, procedures and guidelines
- Proven ability to drive results, including through cross functional teams and other non-traditional reporting structures
- Proven ability to collaborate, negotiate and positively influence management and staff across all levels of the organization
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to handle stressful situations in a calm, objective and professional manner.
Preferred Skills:
- Background leading and supporting practical Agile Transformation activities and Organizational Change
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or Agile Coach certifications or equivalent
- SPC certification and experience with Scaled Agile Framework highly preferred
- Hands-on experience with ALM tools such as the Atlassian suite (including JIRA)
- Experience with agile engineering (DevOps) tools such as Git, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins and Docker
- Excellent working knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Development Operations (DevOps), Contin
location: Mc Lean, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $100 - 106 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
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qualifications:
- Experience level:
- Minimum 9 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
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