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# Jira Administrator & Agile Coach

- **Company:** Hays Specialist Recruitment LLC
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $133,120.0 - $141,440.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Scrum Methodology, Atlassian Tools
- **Published:** August 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hays.com/job-detail/jira-administrator-agile-coach-richmond_1185776

## About the Role

* Strong communication and leadership coaching skills.
 * 3+ years Agile Coaching experience.
 * 5+ years of recent hands-on Jira Admin experience, not just touching Jira - need JQL, etc., this person must be comfortable with hands on the keyboard, cleaning up workflows, creating reporting solutions, diagnose problems, recommend improvements and make the changes
 * Agile Coaching - Scrum, Kanban, etc. understand how the teams work, help teams improve how they plan, how they define work, how they prioritize, be able to communicate well
 * Governance standardization - someone who will find duplicate boards, migrate information, establish standards without over engineering the process
 * Leadership - give ideas, translate data into things leaders understand and help leaders make decisions
 * Financial services or banking experience
 * Experience in highly regulated industry
 * SAFE
 * Jira Align
 * PI planning
 * Building dashboards
 * Atlassian Certifications

## Description

* Conduct assessment of current JIRA usage and configurations.
 * Lead rehabilitation and standardization of JIRA boards, workflows, and governance.
 * Serve as Agile Coach for Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe teams.
 * Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
 * Support and coach Product Owners in backlog refinement, prioritization, and story definition.
 * Review Azure DevOps or JIRA boards to manage sprint delivery, updating tasks as necessary.
 * Remove impediments and proactively identify risks impacting delivery.
 * Promote Agile best practices and coach teams on self-organization and continuous improvement.
 * Coordinate dependencies across multiple products, teams, and stakeholders.
 * Track and communicate team performance metrics such as velocity and predictability.
 * Foster strong collaboration between IT, Product Owners, and business stakeholders.
 * Support Agile transformation initiatives across the organization.
 * Encourage a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
 * Create Product Status Reports in alignment with PMO standards.


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