JIRA ADMINISTRATOR & AGILE COACH
Zilliontechnologiesinc
Contractsenior
Job description
<p>Job Title: <strong>JIRA Administrator & Agile Coach</strong></p><p>Job Location: <strong>Glen Allen, Virginia, United States of America, 23060</strong></p><p><strong>Job Description: JIRA Administrator & Agile Coach (Richmond, VA)</strong> </p><p><strong>Role Summary:</strong></p><p><strong>The JIRA Administrator & Agile Coach will lead modernization, standardization, and rehabilitation of enterprise JIRA boards across the bank while coaching teams and leaders on Agile best practices. This hybrid role combines deep hands-on JIRA administrative expertise with Agile coaching to ensure proper adoption of tools and frameworks across technology teams.</strong> </p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities: </strong></p><ul><li>Conduct assessment of current JIRA usage and configurations.</li><li>Lead rehabilitation and standardization of JIRA boards, workflows, and governance.</li><li>Serve as Agile Coach for Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe teams.</li><li>Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.</li><li>Support and coach Product Owners in backlog refinement, prioritization, and story definition.</li><li>Review Azure DevOps or JIRA boards to manage sprint delivery, updating tasks as necessary.</li><li>Remove impediments and proactively identify risks impacting delivery.</li><li>Promote Agile best practices and coach teams on self-organization and continuous improvement.</li><li>Coordinate dependencies across multiple products, teams, and stakeholders.</li><li>Track and communicate team performance metrics such as velocity and predictability.</li><li>Foster strong collaboration between IT, Product Owners, and business stakeholders.</li><li>Support Agile transformation initiatives across the organization.</li><li>Encourage a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.</li><li>Create Product Status Reports in alignment with PMO standards.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>5+ years JIRA Administration experience.</strong></li><li><strong>3+ years Agile Coaching experience.</strong></li><li><strong>Experience establishing governance and standards.</strong></li><li><strong>Strong communication and leadership coaching skills.</strong></li></ul>
<p><strong>Thanks & Regards, </strong></p><p><strong>Praveen Kumar,</strong></p><p>Sr. Recruiter</p><p>Zillion Technologies Inc (A DigitalNet.Ai Company)</p><p>E-mail: praveen(at)zilliontechnologies(dot)com </p><p>Phone: 571-814-3745 </p>
Skills
JIRAAgileScrumKanbanSAFeAzure DevOps