The Sr. Agile Coach is a transformational leader responsible for fostering an Agile way of working across portfolios, products, and teams.
This role creates an environment where teams can thrive by removing obstacles, improving flow, and enabling empowered, high-performing delivery.
The coach promotes Agile values, principles, and practices while driving alignment with the organization’s product transformation strategy.
This leader works across silos and product portfolios to strengthen cross-team coordination, establish dependency mapping, facilitate Scrum of Scrums, and support enterprise-level road mapping.
They partner closely with Product Managers to shape product roadmaps, OKRs, healthy backlogs, and customer-centric delivery practices.
This role requires a seasoned Agile practitioner capable of coaching at the team, leadership, and portfolio levels—bringing professional coaching skills, a mindset of continuous improvement, and the ability to influence culture change with clarity and urgency.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Significant Agile delivery background: 5–10+ years of hands-on experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or blended models) and end-to-end software delivery in SDLC environments.
Proven ability to operate in product-model environments: backlog management, prioritization, OKRs, MVP scoping, and cross-portfolio dependency mapping.
Strong working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and CI/CD practices.
Demonstrated capability to coach at all levels—teams, leaders, and portfolio stakeholders—using professional-grade facilitation, mentoring, and teaching techniques.
Excellent communication, leadership, time-management, and conflict-resolution skills.
Ability to influence senior leadership and support organizational transformation initiatives.
Recognized as a change catalyst who drives cultural adoption of Agile values, principles, and ways of working.
Track record of improving flow, removing systemic impediments, and enabling high-performing, empowered teams.
Skilled in using delivery metrics (e.g., OKRs, DORA, throughput, predictability) and information radiators to guide improvement and support data-informed coaching.
Proficiency with Agile tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Dragonboat, and increasing use of Copilot-assisted workflows.
Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts sufficiently to partner effectively with engineering, compliance, and risk teams.
Ability to work across complex organizational structures and partner across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Risk to align teams and delivery.
Demonstrated curiosity, adaptability, and ongoing investment in professional growth; models continuous-improvement behaviors.

Benefits

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Agile frameworksScrumKanbanSAFeSDLCbacklog managementOKRsMVP scopingCI/CD practicesdelivery metrics

Soft Skills

communicationleadershiptime-managementconflict-resolutioncoachingfacilitationmentoringteachingadaptabilitycuriosity