SAFe Agile Coach
Enterprise & Leadership Coaching Coach executives and leaders on Lean-Agile principles, systems thinking, and organizational agility. Guide leadership teams in defining transformation goals, success metrics, and adoption roadmaps. Facilitate strategic discussions that remove organizational impediments and improve decision-making. Partner with stakeholders to drive cultural and behavioral change.
Agile Release Train (ART) Coaching Support Agile Release Train Execution and maturity. Facilitate and coach PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events. Improve dependency management, flow, predictability, and alignment across teams. Help ARTs establish effective planning and execution practices.
Team Coaching & Capability Development Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, and Agile teams. Improve facilitation, backlog management, iteration execution, and team dynamics. Establish Communities of Practice and coaching programs that build long-term organizational capability. Promote high-performing, self-managing teams.
Product & Value Delivery Work closely with Product Management and Product Owners to align strategy with execution. Improve backlog quality, prioritization, customer focus, and outcome-driven planning. Facilitate collaboration between business, product, and technology teams. Encourage value-stream thinking and measurable business outcomes.
Technical Agility & Continuous Improvement Partner with engineering teams to improve DevOps, automation, built-in quality, and continuous delivery practices. Support continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and value-stream optimization. Drive data-informed decisions while promoting a culture of experimentation and learning.
Skills Required: 8+ years of experience in Agile delivery, coaching, program leadership, or transformation roles. Strong expertise in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean, Scrum, and Kanban. Experience coaching leaders, Agile teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers. Excellent facilitation, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills. Strong understanding of Agile metrics, flow optimization, and continuous improvement. Experience supporting large-scale Agile transformations in complex enterprise environments.
Preferred SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification preferred. SAFe Agile Coach, SAFe RTE, SAFe POPM, or additional Agile certifications. Experience leading Agile transformations within Financial Services, Asset Management, Banking, or Technology organizations. Knowledge of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Quality Engineering, and Product Operating Models. Professional coaching certifications are a plus.