Agile Coach

Sr. Agile Coach

Duration: Berkeley Heights, NJ (hybrid), Local candidates only

Duration: 6 Months +

What you'll do

• Brings 10+ years of experience coaching Agile delivery across complex, enterprise-scale technology and product organizations.
• Drive Agile transformation strategy across the Engineering and Product organizations, aligning delivery practices with business objectives.
• Partner with senior leaders to embed Agile principles into planning, funding, prioritization, and decision-making.
• Act as a visible advocate for Lean-Agile ways of working, promoting continuous improvement and organizational learning.
• Coach executives and managers on servant leadership, empowerment, and effective organizational design.
• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and delivery teams to improve maturity, predictability, throughput, and quality.
• Implement and optimize Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and pragmatic hybrid models where appropriate.
• Establish consistent ceremonies, cadences, working agreements, and delivery rhythms across teams.
• Promote strong engineering and DevOps practices including CI/CD, automation, trunk-based development, and test-driven development.
• Facilitate key events such as PI Planning, Big Room Planning, portfolio syncs, retrospectives, and cross-team workshops.
• Identify and remove systemic impediments that limit value delivery and flow through value streams.
• Define and use meaningful metrics such as flow metrics, OKRs and team health indicators
• Conduct maturity assessments and coach teams on actionable improvement plans.
• Serve as a change agent, helping shape culture, psychological safety, and customer-centric mindsets.
• Develop internal Agile coaching capability through training, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Support teams in navigating conflict, dependencies, and complex delivery challenges, guiding them toward self-organization.

Looking for

• Demonstrates deep experience coaching Agile delivery at scale across complex, distributed technology organisations.
• Shows strong knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid delivery models.
• Brings proven experience working with senior leaders to align Agile practices with strategic business goals.
• Has a solid understanding of modern engineering and DevOps practices and how they support effective Agile delivery.
• Communicates clearly and confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders across regions.
• Demonstrates strong facilitation skills and the ability to lead large group events and difficult conversations.
• Approaches change with empathy, pragmatism, and a focus on sustainable outcomes.
• Is comfortable operating in an advisory and influence-based consulting role.