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Description
Job Title: Agile Coach (Infrastructure Programs)
Location: Chandler, AZ
Duration: Contract 12+ months
Rate: $90.38-$95.07/hour W2
Must-Have Skills
- 8+ years of Agile experience with several years as an Agile Coach
- Active Agile certifications (CSM, CSP, SAFe SPC, SAFe Agilist, ICP-ACC, or similar)
- Experience coaching Infrastructure/Platform/Operations teams (not just application development)
- Strong process management and continuous improvement experience
- Deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Agile best practices
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies, PI Planning, retrospectives, and leadership workshops
- Experience working with cross-functional infrastructure programs involving networking, cloud, servers, databases, or enterprise platforms
- Strong experience with Jira and Confluence; ability to build dashboards and Agile metrics
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills
Preferred Skills
- Experience in enterprise or financial services environments
- Experience with Agile transformations across multiple teams
- Knowledge of DevOps, SRE, ITIL, or Infrastructure Operations
- SAFe implementation experience
Responsibilities
- Coach infrastructure and platform teams on Agile principles, frameworks, and best practices.
- Drive Agile maturity through process improvements, metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, PI Planning, retrospectives, and cross-team planning sessions.
- Partner with engineering leadership to remove delivery impediments and improve team effectiveness.
- Develop Agile metrics and dashboards using Jira to measure team health and delivery performance.
- Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and technical leaders on Agile execution.
- Standardize Agile processes across multiple infrastructure initiatives while balancing governance and delivery.
- Foster collaboration across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, and operations teams.
About Matlen Silver
Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.
Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [email protected] // 908-393-8600
At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
- 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)