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# Senior Agile Coach

- **Company:** LMI
- **Location:** Tysons, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, JIRA, Capability Maturity Model, Scrum Methodology, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Systems Integration, Information Technology, Atlassian Tools
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18626307/Senior-Agile-Coach-Virginia-Tysons

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, organizational development, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
 * 7+ years of experience coaching Agile teams or leading Agile adoption and improvement in complex organizations.
 * Experience adapting practices across multiple Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, or comparable approaches, with demonstrated principles-first judgment.
 * Experience assessing Agile maturity and operational workflows, identifying impediments, and translating findings into actionable coaching and improvement plans.
 * Hands-on Jira experience with team-level setup and administration support, including workflows, boards, issue types, filters, dashboards, and relevant project settings.
 * Experience designing and delivering training and facilitating working sessions for technical teams, leaders, and business stakeholders.
 * Experience defining, collecting, interpreting, and presenting Agile delivery or program-performance metrics to support informed decisions.
 * Strong coaching, facilitation, relationship-building, conflict-navigation, and written and verbal communication skills across organizational levels.
 * Ability to independently solve complex challenges, influence without formal authority, and mentor other practitioners.
 * U.S. citizenship is required. Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust determination.

Desired Qualifications

 * Master's degree in a relevant field.
 * Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal civilian agencies, healthcare systems, or similarly regulated organizations.
 * Experience coaching at scale using SAFe; SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification preferred.
 * Additional credentials such as CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, or comparable Agile coaching certifications.
 * Experience supporting a Program Value Office, PMO, Lean Portfolio Management function, or similar performance and governance capability.
 * Knowledge of flow metrics, objectives and key results (OKRs), Agile delivery dashboards, value-stream measurement, and change effectiveness.
 * Experience facilitating executive workshops and enterprise-wide organizational transformation and continuous improvement programs.

## Description

Evaluate current-state Agile maturity, team practices, planning routines, handoffs, delivery constraints, and Jira usage through interviews, observation, artifacts, and metrics.

 * Develop actionable, sequenced improvement recommendations that reflect Agile principles, VA mission priorities, team capabilities, and organizational constraints.
 * Coach delivery teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, managers, and stakeholders on appropriately tailored Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, and continuous improvement practices.
 * Facilitate retrospectives, planning and refinement sessions, cross-team coordination workshops, leadership working sessions, and change-adoption activities.
 * Design and deliver role-based Agile and Jira training, coaching materials, job aids, practical exercises, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
 * Provide hands-on Jira team-level setup and support, including boards, workflows, issue types, filters, dashboards, and related configurations within approved permissions and governance standards.
 * Partner with Atlassian administrators and technical specialists when changes require platform-wide administration, migration, integrations, or security approvals.
 * Help teams connect Jira practices to clear backlog structure, work visualization, priority management, dependency visibility, and accurate, low-burden reporting.
 * Partner with the Program Value Office to define useful, interpretable metrics for flow, predictability, team health, delivery performance, adoption, and value realization.
 * Analyze and communicate quantitative and qualitative findings, explaining metric limitations and avoiding measures that incentivize counterproductive behaviors.
 * Guide client leaders and teams in using performance insights to make decisions, remove impediments, prioritize improvements, and test whether changes are effective.
 * Support change management and organizational adoption through stakeholder engagement, feedback loops, coaching plans, and repeatable working agreements.
 * Mentor less-experienced coaches and practitioners; produce reusable playbooks, assessment instruments, training assets, and facilitation approaches.
 * Collaborate with the TPM, VA stakeholders, PVO team, technical leads, and other partners; raise delivery risks and inter-team dependencies and provide concise progress updates.