[Hiring] Agile Coach / Trainer Level IV @LMI

Role Description

LMI is seeking an Agile Coach / Trainer Level IV level to strengthen Agile delivery practices and Atlassian tool proficiency across Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) teams and a geographically distributed workforce. This role blends team assessment, practical coaching, interactive instruction, and sustainable adoption strategies to help organizations use Agile methods and Jira more effectively.

• Assess current team practices.
• Lead instructor-led and virtual workshops.
• Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, delivery teams, and managers through changes in planning, backlog management, ceremonies, flow, and reporting.
• Work with instructional designers and analysts to tailor instruction and follow-up support to demonstrated readiness.
• Observe actual team behavior and help teams remove practical barriers.
• Reinforce skills after training and build communities that can sustain improvement independently.
• Balance common enterprise standards with respect for different team missions and operating contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, organizational development, business administration, information systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant Agile delivery, coaching, training, or transformation experience, including at least 3 years of Agile coaching or instruction.
• One of the following or equivalent credentials:
  • International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) Certified Professional in Agile Coaching or Authorized Instructor Credential
  • Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
  • Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practice Consultant (SPC) or Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• Hands-on Jira Cloud proficiency and practical mastery of Scrum and Agile team practices.
• Strong virtual facilitation, coaching, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and satisfy applicable federal personnel vetting, security, privacy, accessibility, and data-handling requirements.
• Ability to adapt Agile instruction to adult learners with varied technical experience and facilitate constructive conversations with skeptical/change resistant/change-fatigued teams.
• Experience defining practical measures of team maturity, coaching progress, and adoption with supporting evidence.

Requirements

• Prior experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), or federal health programs is highly desirable.
• Experience establishing Agile communities of practice and scaled coaching models.
• Jira Align, Jira Cloud, Confluence Cloud, or public-sector technology transformation experience.
• Experience measuring Agile maturity and training effectiveness.
• Experience connecting scaled portfolio practices with team-level execution and Jira/Jira Align reporting expectations.
• A master's degree in organizational development, adult learning, instructional technology, or industrial-organizational psychology is desirable.
• Additional credentials such as ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) or ICAgile Enterprise Agile Coaching are desirable.
• Atlassian Cloud certifications beneficial.

Benefits

• Target Salary Range: $102,000 - $174,000
• The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation.
• Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances.

Job Locations

• US-Remote