Senior Agile Coach
Posted 1 week ago by Tri-Force Consulting Services Inc
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The Senior Agile Coach will lead organizational and program-wide agile transformations, focusing on measurable outcomes and fostering a culture shift from output to outcome. This role requires collaboration with engineering leadership and the ability to influence teams without direct authority. The position is fully remote and emphasizes the development of agile practices across multiple teams. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in agile methodologies and metrics, particularly in a scaled environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coach entire organizations and programs
- Design and execute a multi-team agile transformation program with measurable milestones
- Operate as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership - providing candid, data-backed input on delivery health
- Design ADO structure for multi-team environments: area paths, team configurations, cross-team dependency tracking, portfolio-level visibility
- Implement at scale: overall retrospectives, cross-team sprint synchronization, area product ownership, self-selection processes
- Lead without authority - influence vendor teams, internal teams, and organizational structures
- Design and implement a comprehensive metrics framework: flow, stability (DORA), quality, and backlog health
- Shift engineering culture from output-focused to outcome-focused - and sustain that shift
- Facilitate difficult organizational conversations: between PMO and engineering, between vendors and product, between teams and leadership
- Build SM capability in others - mentor junior and mid-level SMs, identify gaps, provide structured coaching
Key Skills:
- Demonstrated scaled experience - not just familiarity, actual operation in or implementation
- DORA metrics literacy - can explain what deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and MTTR mean and how to improve them
- Experience challenging and changing organizational structures that block team effectiveness - not just working around them
- Evidence of having built and sustained psychological safety on teams that were previously defensive or siloed
- Ability to run executive-level conversations using delivery data - not status updates, constraint analysis
Salary (Rate): £52,000 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Title: Senior Agile Coach
Duration: 12 months
Note: 100% remote role.
Detailed Job Description:
- Coach entire organizations and programs
- Design and execute a multi-team agile transformation program with measurable milestones
- Operate as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership - providing candid, data-backed input on delivery health
- Design ADO structure for multi-team environments: area paths, team configurations, cross-team dependency tracking, portfolio-level visibility
- Implement at scale: overall retrospectives, cross-team sprint synchronization, area product ownership, self-selection processes
- Lead without authority - influence vendor teams, internal teams, and organizational structures
- Design and implement a comprehensive metrics framework: flow, stability (DORA), quality, and backlog health
- Shift engineering culture from output-focused to outcome-focused - and sustain that shift
- Facilitate difficult organizational conversations: between PMO and engineering, between vendors and product, between teams and leadership
- Build SM capability in others - mentor junior and mid-level SMs, identify gaps, provide structured coaching"
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated scaled experience - not just familiarity, actual operation in or implementation
- DORA metrics literacy - can explain what deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and MTTR mean and how to improve them
- Experience challenging and changing organizational structures that block team effectiveness - not just working around them
- Evidence of having built and sustained psychological safety on teams that were previously defensive or siloed
- Ability to run executive-level conversations using delivery data - not status updates, constraint analysis
Standards We Expect From a Sr SM / Agile Coach
- Operates across multiple teams simultaneously with full situational awareness on each
- Produces a quarterly maturity assessment for each team with trend data and forward plan
- Drives DORA metric baseline: deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR are tracked and improving
- Cross-team impediments are owned and driven to resolution - not left in a shared log
- Contributes to the engineering standards playbook - not just applies it
- Conducts structured capability reviews for junior and mid-level SMs under their oversight"
If you are: bright, motivated, skilled, a difference-maker, able to get things done, work with minimum direction, enthusiastic, a thinker, able to juggle and multi-task, communicate effectively, and lead, then we would like to hear from you. We need exceptionally capable people for this role for our client, so get back to us and tell us why
you think you are a fit.