Agile Coach

We are looking for Agile Coach for our client in Dallas TX.

Job Title: Agile Coach

Job Location: Dallas TX

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• 1+ years of experience in Agile coaching and transformation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise-wide Agile transformation initiatives.
• Coach Scrum Teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and leadership on Agile principles and practices.
• Assess Agile maturity and define improvement roadmaps.
• Drive adoption of Agile and Lean methodologies across multiple business units.
• Facilitate organizational change management activities related to Agile transformation.
• Mentor teams on Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, and SAFe practices.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Help teams remove impediments and improve delivery effectiveness.
• Promote self-organizing and high-performing teams.
• Coach executives and managers on Agile leadership principles.
• Support organizational design aligned with Agile operating models.
• Guide leaders in metrics-driven decision-making.
• Drive Agile governance while maintaining team autonomy.
• Improve predictability, quality, and delivery velocity.
• Establish Agile KPIs and performance dashboards.
• Identify process bottlenecks and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support value stream optimization and flow efficiency.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product management, PMO, architecture, and engineering teams.
• Align business priorities with Agile delivery plans.
• Facilitate conflict resolution and drive consensus across stakeholders.
• Communicate Agile transformation progress and outcomes to leadership.

Skills:

• Scrum Framework.
• Kanban.
• Lean Principles.
• SAFe Framework.
• Agile Scaling Practices.
• Value Stream Mapping.
• Agile Metrics & Reporting.
• Executive Coaching.
• Team Development.
• Change Management.
• Facilitation & Workshop Leadership.
• Conflict Resolution.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Servant Leadership.
• Jira.
• Azure DevOps.
• Rally.
• Confluence.
• Miro.
• Microsoft Teams.
• Power BI.

Education and Experience:

• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).
• SAFe Agilist (SA).
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM).
• ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP-ACC).
• PMI-ACP.
• Lean Six Sigma Certification.