Senior Agile Transformation Coach

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

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 ( )