Role Summary
Seeking an experienced Senior Agile Coach for a short-term onsite engagement to coach and enable the Product Engineering organization. The focus is on improving Agile maturity, Product–Engineering collaboration, delivery predictability, and establishing sustainable Agile practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess current Agile practices and identify improvement opportunities.
- Coach Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams.
- Improve backlog management, sprint planning, prioritization, ceremonies, retrospectives, and delivery predictability.
- Conduct hands-on Agile workshops and coaching during active delivery cycles.
- Establish practical metrics around velocity, flow, cycle time, throughput, and predictability.
- Develop an Agile playbook and 60–90-day improvement roadmap to sustain practices after the engagement.
Required Experience
- 12+ years of technology/product delivery experience with significant Agile coaching experience.
- Strong experience coaching Product/Software Engineering teams.
- Ability to work with both delivery teams and senior Product/Engineering leadership.
- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and scaled Agile practices.
- Healthcare or regulated-industry experience preferred.
- Onsite availability is required.
Certifications
- Senior-level Agile certifications required/preferred, such as:
- ICP-ACC / ICP-ATF
- CSP-SM / CSP-PO
- SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)
- Advanced Scrum.org certifications