Agile Coach / Trainer Level IV

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.

The Agile Coach / Trainer will assess current team practices, lead instructor-led and virtual workshops, and coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, delivery teams, and managers through changes in planning, backlog management, ceremonies, flow, and reporting. Working with instructional designers and analysts, the coach will tailor instruction and follow-up support to demonstrated readiness rather than assume a one-size-fits-all curriculum.

This is not a classroom-only position. Success requires observing actual team behavior, helping teams remove practical barriers, reinforcing skills after training, and building communities that can sustain improvement independently. The ideal candidate can balance common enterprise standards with respect for different team missions and operating contexts.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors-helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Conduct Agile maturity, Jira Cloud proficiency, and team-readiness interviews, workshops, and observations.
• Deliver engaging instructor-led and virtual training on Agile fundamentals for: Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Jira and Confluence Cloud users.
• Coach teams on backlogs, ceremonies, prioritization, flow, metrics, and standardized Jira work management.
• Adapt coaching to assessed team needs; provide office hours and post-training reinforcement.
• Facilitate Agile communities of practice and champions sessions; gather feedback and improve reusable guidance.
• Partner with instructional designers and analysts to align training paths with assessment results and adoption measures.
• Re-assess Agile maturity and Jira Cloud utilization through structured interviews, team observation, facilitated workshops, and evidence-based coaching plans.
• Tailor role-based coaching for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, team leads, and portfolio stakeholders, with actionable follow-up goals and clear ownership.
• Demonstrate working Jira boards, epics, stories, sprint and Kanban configurations, dashboards, and reporting approaches during hands-on learning sessions.
• Measure coaching effectiveness through behavior changes, self-assessments, training feedback, and changes in team practices rather than attendance alone.
• Create reusable facilitation guides and coach-the-coach material that enable local champions to reinforce skills after formal instruction.

Required:

• 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 to facilitate constructive conversations with skeptical / change resistant / change-fatigued teams.
• Experience defining practical measures of team maturity, coaching progress, and adoption with supporting evidence.

Desired:

• 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

Target Salary Range: $102,000 - $174,000

Disclaimer:

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.