Senior Agile Transformation Coach

hatch I.T. is partnering with an IT consulting and professional services company to find a Senior Agile Transformation Coach.

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About the Role:

The company is part of a team leading an agile operating model transformation for an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) division. You will be embedded alongside your coaching team full-time with the client, working with military and civilian leaders inside secure program spaces to build agile practices the division can sustain after the engagement ends.

This is a shoulder-to-shoulder coaching role. You will model agile practices directly, coach leaders and teams through real program work, and contribute to assessments, workshops, playbooks, and training as part of a structured, release-based roadmap. The initial engagement runs approximately six months with potential for follow-on work.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

Responsibilities:: As a Product Coach, you'll be responsible for helping your client understand how to build and lead a product culture that focuses on creating valuable and viable solutions.

• Solve complex problems using sound logic and compelling narratives
• Advise on agile, SAFe, and Scrum @ Scale strategies to implement across the organization
• Build trust and collaborative relationships among all stakeholders across the ART
• Mentor Scrum Masters, leadership, PO/PMs, and other ART team members on agile and SAFe best practices
• Facilitate the identification of objectives and key results (OKRs) that are product-team specific, but roll up to organizational goals

Coach clients on agile principles and processes and on building compelling Product Vision and Product Strategy descriptions and how to orient Product Roadmaps around the delivery of customer value as opposed to output

• Partner with teams and stakeholders to help improve their agile practices
• Identify practical ways to keep team members engaged and motivated in a remote environment
• Escalate impediments and risks, and clearly explain their impact in plain language
• Requirements:: US citizenship and an active SECRET security clearance at start of work, with the ability to maintain it and obtain a Common Access Card (CAC)
• Able to work 100% on-site at Hanscom AFB, MA, Monday through Friday, with occasional travel to other client locations
• At least 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree (or an Associate’s degree plus 14 years, or 16 years of relevant experience)
• Experience leading or coaching large agile programs, typically involving 30 to 75 people, including launching and coaching teams of teams (Agile Release Trains or equivalent)
• Experience coaching agile transformations, preferably in DoD or other highly regulated, high-consequence environments
• Documented experience implementing or scaling frameworks grounded in the Agile Manifesto
• Expertise in agile and lean approaches applied to business process modernization and to systems engineering, hardware and software co-development, or test and certification cycles
• Experience interacting with senior clients at a supervisory level and directing multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience participating in strategic planning and supporting program planning and budget activities
• Experience conducting organizational assessments and surveys and turning the results into business process improvements
• Excellent facilitation skills, including leadership workshops, backlog development and refinement sessions, and problem-solving workshops
• Hands-on practice with Scrum and Kanban, and working knowledge of scaled approaches such as Scrum@Scale or SAFe
• Effective coach: excellent communicator , exudes patience, and loves to teach others
• Ability to maintain composure in the face of challenges and propose logical approaches to address issues
• Good written and oral communication skills, including executive briefings
• Strongly preferred: Scrum@Scale Practitioner , Registered Scrum Master , Registered Product Owner , or SAFe (SPC, RTE) certifications; PMP or PgMP is a plus
• Strongly preferred: experience with Air Force or DoD acquisition, systems engineering, or airworthiness processes
• Strongly preferred: lives in a US SBA HUBZone ( )