MTA IT Agile Center of Excellence (COE) is seeking an experienced and pragmatic Agile Coach to support Agile adoption and delivery excellence across its Agile product teams.
Requirements
- Familiar with DevSecOps tools and techniques such as modern IDE's, GitHub, containerization, everything as code, and zero-trust.
- Agile Coaching and Transformation experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of practical Agile experience.
- Strong understanding of Agile concepts, including Scrum, Kanban, Product Ownership, and Agile Scaling.
- Experience as a hands-on organizational change agent working across multiple teams
- Experience with building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps culture, empowering a Lean Portfolio, and clearly understanding what it takes to successfully implement Agile frameworks in the enterprise (starting with teams’ / Program levels and scaling up to Large Solutions and Portfolio levels).
- Knowledge of Jira and Confluence
Responsibilities
- Provide direct coaching and hands-on support to Agile delivery teams, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, developers, testers, and business analysts.
- Guide teams in the effective use of Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Agile at scale practices appropriate to their context.
- Help product teams identify and remove impediments, improve team dynamics, and establish healthy Agile rhythms (e.g., sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives).
- Assess team Agile maturity levels using defined metrics and qualitative feedback; co-create improvement plans tailored to each team’s needs.
- Promote self-organizing teams and facilitate the development of Agile mindsets through observation, feedback, and continuous learning cycles.
- Help teams adopt Agile engineering practices, including test automation, continuous integration, trunk-based development, and DevOps practices.
- Design and deliver training sessions, basecamps, and workshops to upskill team members on Agile principles, roles, and practices.
Other
- Position at MTA Headquarters
- SALARY RANGE: $128,026 - $151,112
- This position is eligible for telework, which is currently two days per week.
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Master’s degree in the related field, Agile coaching, and a minimum of 3 years leading agile transformations.
