Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Location: Irvine, CA (4 Days Onsite) | Local or near by 60 miles max

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Agile Coach to support delivery governance, portfolio coordination, and continuous improvement across cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, and technology operations.

The ideal candidate will bring strong Jira administration, Agile delivery leadership, stakeholder management, and product management experience. This role will focus on creating transparency across delivery activities, improving backlog health, managing cross-functional dependencies, and providing leadership with reliable insights into delivery progress, risks, and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

1. Jira Administration & Work Management

• Build, configure, document, and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views.
• Support intake, prioritization, planning, execution, and closure of improvement initiatives.
• Manage Jira permissions, automation, reporting, and data-quality practices.
• Maintain backlog quality by identifying stale, incomplete, duplicate, blocked, or incorrectly classified work.

2. Agile Planning & Delivery Facilitation

• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) planning or equivalent periodic planning activities.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily Scrum meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Coordinate delivery commitments, owners, estimates, dependencies, and target dates.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile practices, collaboration, role clarity, and continuous improvement.

3. Product Management & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Facilitate product management practices, including outcome definition, roadmap development, backlog management, and prioritization.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to clarify priorities, acceptance criteria, estimates, and expected outcomes.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans.
• Maintain stakeholder alignment across multiple teams and business functions.

4. Delivery Governance & Risk Management

• Track commitments, decisions, risks, dependencies, blockers, and action items through resolution.
• Monitor delivery progress and proactively escalate aging, blocked, overdue, or at-risk commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies, accountable owners, committed dates, and completion criteria.
• Track improvement actions arising from lessons learned and operational post-mortems.

5. Metrics, Dashboards & Leadership Reporting

• Develop dashboards and delivery metrics covering:
  • Demand and backlog health
  • Delivery capacity and throughput
  • Cycle time and work-item aging
  • Blocked work and delivery predictability
  • Delivery risks and dependencies
• Establish metric definitions, calculation logic, data sources, reporting cadences, and data-quality checks.
• Prepare concise leadership updates highlighting priorities, progress, capacity, risks, dependencies, decisions required, and recommended tradeoffs.

Required Qualifications

• Experience leading Agile delivery across cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, technology operations, or similarly complex technical portfolios.
• Strong Jira administration and reporting experience, including:
  • Workflows and boards
  • Filters and dashboards
  • Permissions and automation
  • Portfolio reporting and data-quality management
• Experience facilitating Agile planning and delivery ceremonies across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience with product management practices, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment.
• Proven ability to coach teams and stakeholders on Agile methodologies and continuous improvement.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, risk management, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical delivery information into concise leadership reports and actionable insights.
• Demonstrated experience managing dependencies, tracking commitments, and establishing delivery transparency.
• Strong documentation, organizational, and follow-through skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting cybersecurity or adjacent risk and technology functions.
• Experience working in scaled Agile or multi-team delivery environments.
• Experience establishing portfolio reporting, delivery governance, or new work-management practices.

Role Scope

This role focuses on coordinating capability, process, tooling, platform-health, and service-improvement delivery.

It does not involve directly managing or executing day-to-day cybersecurity operational activities or cases.

Why This Role Matters

The Agile Coach will help establish a consistent and transparent delivery system that connects prioritized demand with available capacity, improves accountability for commitments, identifies risks early, and provides leadership with reliable information for effective decision-making.