Agile Coach

Job Title: Agile Coach

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 months

Key Skills: Leadership Essentials - Managing Secure Delivery and Operations >7 years

Descriptions:

•      Coach entire organizations and programs - not just individual teams

•       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"

•       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

•       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