Sr. Agile Coach

We’re seeking a Senior Agile Coach who brings strong critical thinking and facilitation skills to help clients navigate complex Agile transformations. You can communicate clearly and influence senior executives, using high emotional intelligence and organizational awareness to challenge norms and drive adoption without formal authority. You have experience delivering large-scale software initiatives and implementing Agile frameworks at enterprise scale. You’re also comfortable leading SAFe trainings and workshops to accelerate consistent ways of working.

Reporting to our Delivery Operations Manager, as a Full-Time Specialist on our team, you’ll partner with clients to guide teams and leaders through the cultural and process shifts needed to move from traditional delivery to Agile ways of working. You’ll teach, train, and mentor at all levels- reinforcing Agile principles, the values of the Agile Manifesto, and the practical techniques that make them real in day-to-day delivery. You’ll help ensure frameworks and practices are consistently understood and applied across teams to improve alignment, flow, and outcomes. You’ll do this work in a fast-growing emerging technology space with meaningful opportunities for continued growth.

• 5+ years’ experience leading Agile initiatives with a proven background in software development lifecycle and driving organization through transformational changes
  
• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach leading Agile training sessions, workshops, ways of working, planning sessions, and creating required documentation and material
  
• Experience and knowledge with agile techniques, processes, and tools that enable the rapid definition, design, build, test and integration of the product or solution
  
• Experience working in an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum, SAFe, DevOps, etc.), successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios
  
• Extensive experience with one or more agile tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps(ADO), preferably Jira, and agile frameworks like Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DevOps
  
• Experience in coaching and developing people and teams, influencing behavior change, and establishing sustainability through cultural change
  
• Experience in delivering presentations to virtual and in-person teams
  
• SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) Certification 6.0
  

• Provide coaching and mentorship to employees at all levels of the organization on Lean-Agile, Agile, and SAFe principles
  
• Provides hand-on coaching to the Agile teams in all aspects including attending ceremonies/events and providing recommendations and feedback to the team throughout the life cycle
  
• Coach teams in scrum tasks (e.g., sprint planning, user story mapping, estimations, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospective discussions, etc.)
  
• Ensure Agile project metrics are being tracked, and monitored for indications of potential problem areas and assist teams in identifying and implementing solutions to address the problems
  
• Identify and coach Agile evangelists across the organization who can act as informal mentors/peers and continue increasing the maturity across the organization
  
• Identify need and provide as necessary structured and ad-hoc training in Agile principles and practices including Scrum, Product Ownership, and Program Management
  
• Develop and deliver presentations to various levels of stakeholders and facilitate working sessions to identify resolutions to impediments to continuous Agile improvement
  
• Effectively leverage and combine different industry-standard scaling concepts to specific business problems in a manner that best supports Scaled Agile values and principles
  
• Foster a strong spirit of communication and collaboration between teams to align program goals, deliver final products, and ensure leadership transparency to impediments and progress
  
• Ensure appropriate risk management and control practices are integrated into the lifecycle of Agile initiatives
  
• Continuously identify opportunities for improvement for implementing Agile tools and best practices
  
• Lead Agile teams through product framing and discovery, including defining business KPIs, product vision, user story mapping, and other farming activities
  
• Drive consistent Agile practices and strategies across the organization to enhance business value delivery and responsiveness to organization and marketplace opportunities
  
• Ensure Agile concepts and principles are adhered to, and also seen as the voice of reason and authority
  

Celebrated by Inc. 5000 for our rapid growth and award-winning workplace, Main Digital invites you to be a part of our collaborative and forward-thinking team. As a Certified Women-Owned Small Business, we champion diversity in tech. Our diverse teams combine management consulting expertise, innovative digital design, and advanced product engineering. Driven by our six core values, we lead in intelligent automation, platform technologies, and Agile methodologies to create unparalleled digital experiences. Join us as we empower people to create new possibilities through process and technology, reimagining the ways of work and enhancing experiences with digital transformation.