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Candidate with 8 to 10 years of experience.
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Coach entire organizations and programs - not just individual teams.
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Design and execute a multi-team agile transformation program with measurable milestones.
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Operate as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership - providing candid, data-backed input on delivery health.
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Design ADO structure for multi-team environments: area paths, team configurations, cross-team dependency tracking, portfolio-level visibility.
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Implement at scale: overall retrospectives, cross-team sprint synchronization, area product ownership, self-selection processes.
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Lead without authority - influence vendor teams, internal teams, and organizational structures.
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Design and implement a comprehensive metrics framework: flow, stability (DORA), quality, and backlog health.
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Shift engineering culture from output-focused to outcome-focused - and sustain that shift.
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Facilitate difficult organizational conversations: between PMO and engineering, between vendors and product, between teams and leadership.
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Build SM capability in others - mentor junior and mid-level SMs, identify gaps, provide structured coaching.
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Demonstrated scaled experience - not just familiarity, actual operation in or implementation.
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DORA metrics literacy - can explain what deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and MTTR mean and how to improve them.
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Experience challenging and changing organizational structures that block team effectiveness - not just working around them.
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Evidence of having built and sustained psychological safety on teams that were previously defensive or siloed.
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Ability to run executive-level conversations using delivery data - not status updates, constraint analysis.
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