Agile Coach
Job Category: Information Technology
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Public Trust
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%
Type of Travel: Continental US
CACI's Business Systems Operating Group is searching for individuals who can deliver application development and support for NASA's enterprise business systems. Selected candidates will deliver and sustain capabilities in a fast-paced SAFe agile development environment. Work includes collaborating on systems and solutions supporting large portfolios from business, analysis, technical, systems, data, and enterprise functions.
CACI is looking for an Agile Coach with experience coaching SAFe implementations. The desired candidate will be a servant leader, someone who can facilitate both change and collaboration at scale. A SAFe coach embodies the attributes of the Lean-Agile mindset as well as a learning and growth attitude to lead by example, while continuously fostering positive change.
More About the Role
Guide organizations in fostering better ways of working
Using the principles of SAFe, serve the teams, enable product delivery, and benefit the overall enterprise.
By embodying servant leadership, help the organization increase SAFe's effectiveness and relentlessly expand collaboration, coordination, knowledge transfer, and consistent information flow.
Be a facilitator of change by organizing around value, encouraging knowledge sharing and use of design thinking to innovate around the
Find ways to coach and continuously improve collaboration at scale.
Communicate the business need, urgency, and vision for change.
Socialize the new concepts and communicate upcoming changes and establish metrics.
Work with stakeholders to understand the flow of value and facilitate the identification of Operational Value Streams, Development Value Streams and ARTs to find those that are the most opportunistic for launch.
Train executives, leaders, Agile teams, and specialty roles-such as Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum Master, Solution Train Engineer (STE) and Release Train Engineer (RTE).
Train teams and participate in critical events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and Inspect and Adapt (I&A).
Coach leaders and stakeholders to build and maintain the Vision, Roadmap, and Program Backlogs.
Coach teams, Product Owners, Product Managers, Architects, STEs, and RTEs.
Guide the shift from project-to-product with a focus on Customer Centricity and Design Thinking as part of Agile Product Delivery.
Participate in Scrum of Scrums and System Demo, facilitate I&A and follow-up on improvement items.
Help teams establish a DevOps culture and mindset, the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, infrastructure, and associated Agile technical practices.
Facilitate extension to the portfolio by socializing and driving SAFe practices to the portfolio level, including Portfolio Vision, Lean Budgets using Participatory Budgeting and Guardrails and Lean Portfolio Management.
Communicate the value of Strategic Themes.
Measure & Grow the SAFe implementation at various points using SAFe provided assessments to understand where the organization is on the path to business agility.
You'll Bring These Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and seven (7) years of related experience
Two (2) years' experience coaching SAFe implementations
Certified SAFeR Program Consultant (SPC) or Certified SAFeR Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to pass an IT-1 background investigation.
These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have
Federal business experience
Experience implementing Full SAFe for an enterprise building large-scale solutions
Company Overview:
CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Pay Range : There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here (https://careers.caci.com/global/en/employee-benefits)
Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$95,500-$210,100
