Senior Agile Coach

Senior Agile Coach — Regulated Financial Environment

We are seeking a Senior Agile Coach to support Agile teams within a large, mission-critical and highly regulated environment.

Core responsibilities

• Evaluate Agile maturity, delivery practices, role clarity, team dynamics, work flow, and barriers affecting team performance.

• Create targeted coaching strategies for teams at different stages of Agile adoption, from early-stage teams to mature teams needing to improve outcomes, flow, or predictability.

• Coach delivery teams on practical Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban practices, including planning, backlog refinement, Sprint Goals, prioritization, WIP management, retrospectives, metrics, and continuous improvement.

• Partner with Scrum Masters and Product Owners to strengthen facilitation, stakeholder engagement, backlog quality, value prioritization, dependency management, and delivery accountability.

• Help teams incorporate security, risk, controls, governance, architecture, compliance, and operational-readiness needs into day-to-day Agile planning and execution.

• Work constructively with stakeholders who may be resistant to Agile adoption or concerned that Agile practices could weaken oversight, documentation, or control requirements.

• Promote consistent use of organizational delivery standards and the enterprise Agile playbook while bringing practical industry coaching methods.

• Use Jira to improve work visibility, reporting, traceability, workflow management, delivery metrics, and team improvement discussions.

• Help establish sustainable practices so teams and internal Agile leaders can continue improving after direct coaching support decreases.

• Work in partnership with the Agile Program Manager and cross-functional program stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of direct, hands-on experience coaching Agile teams in complex enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading or materially supporting Agile transformation, operating-model improvement, or enterprise Agile adoption efforts.

• Proven ability to assess team maturity and delivery challenges, develop tailored coaching plans, and demonstrate measurable improvement.

• Strong practical coaching experience with Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scrumban; experience must extend beyond facilitating ceremonies.

• Experience coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners, delivery managers, and stakeholders in complex, cross-functional delivery environments.

• Experience resolving Agile adoption barriers, stakeholder resistance, role ambiguity, dependency challenges, or conflicting delivery expectations.

• Experience working in a regulated or control-oriented environment, preferably federal government, financial services, banking, payments, insurance, cybersecurity, or another environment with significant governance and compliance expectations.

• Strong Jira experience, including boards, workflows, dashboards, delivery metrics, reporting, and traceability.

• At least one recognized Agile coaching or advanced Agile credential, such as ICP-Client, CSP, SPC, or a comparable certification.

• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and executive communication skills.