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.
As a Senior Agile Transformation Coach, you will be one of three coaches embedded full time with the client, coaching leaders and teams through real program work and building a capability the division can sustain after the engagement ends.
Provide daily, in-person coaching to division leaders, Branch Chiefs, Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads, and first-line supervisors on iterative systems engineering and acquisition practices•
Support the baseline assessment, including administering the organization-wide agility survey and conducting stakeholder interviews across ranks, civilian grades, and contractor roles
Co-facilitate senior leadership workshops that produce a co-owned improvement backlog, a transformation vision, and a transformation roadmap
Coach the Transformation Leadership Team and the joint Government and contractor transformation team on working agreements, backlog management, and agile ceremonies
Deliver scaffolded training and coaching in which each skill builds on competencies validated in the prior release
Coach reference model structures and teams of teams through launch and their first operational delivery cycles, including division-level prioritization and execution cycles
Help teams identify, escalate, and resolve impediments, including airworthiness, security, and contracting bottlenecks, and clearly explain their impact in plain language
Capture and document early wins and program acceleration metrics
Contribute to playbooks, standard operating procedures, and governance documentation for replication across other branches, and help transition enablement to the division’s internal Agile Enablement Office
Support the engagement lead with strategic planning, release planning, release review materials, and monthly brief content
Build trust and collaborative relationships among leaders, program managers, chief engineers, and teams
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 ( )
