SAFe Agile Coach

Bill Rate: $65
Location: - Kansas City
Duration: 6 months
GBaMS ReqID: 10943071
Job Title: SAFe Agile Coach
"Key Responsibilities
Enterprise & Leadership Coaching
" Coach executives and leaders on Lean-Agile principles, systems thinking, and organizational agility.
" Guide leadership teams in defining transformation goals, success metrics, and adoption roadmaps.
" Facilitate strategic discussions that remove organizational impediments and improve decision-making.
" Partner with stakeholders to drive cultural and behavioral change.
Agile Release Train (ART) Coaching
" Support Agile Release Train Execution and maturity.
" Facilitate and coach PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events.
" Improve dependency management, flow, predictability, and alignment across teams.
" Help ARTs establish effective planning and execution practices.
Team Coaching & Capability Development
" Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, and Agile teams.
" Improve facilitation, backlog management, iteration execution, and team dynamics.
" Establish Communities of Practice and coaching programs that build long-term organizational capability.
" Promote high-performing, self-managing teams.
Product & Value Delivery
" Work closely with Product Management and Product Owners to align strategy with execution.
" Improve backlog quality, prioritization, customer focus, and outcome-driven planning.
" Facilitate collaboration between business, product, and technology teams.
" Encourage value-stream thinking and measurable business outcomes.
Technical Agility & Continuous Improvement
" Partner with engineering teams to improve DevOps, automation, built-in quality, and continuous delivery practices.
" Support continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and value-stream optimization.
" Drive data-informed decisions while promoting a culture of experimentation and learning. "

Skills Required :
"" 8+ years of experience in Agile delivery, coaching, program leadership, or transformation roles.
" Strong expertise in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean, Scrum, and Kanban.
" Experience coaching leaders, Agile teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers.
" Excellent facilitation, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
" Strong understanding of Agile metrics, flow optimization, and continuous improvement.
" Experience supporting large-scale Agile transformations in complex enterprise environments.
Preferred
" SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification preferred.
" SAFe Agile Coach, SAFe RTE, SAFe POPM, or additional Agile certifications.
" Experience leading Agile transformations within Financial Services, Asset Management, Banking, or Technology organizations.
" Knowledge of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Quality Engineering, and Product Operating Models.
" Professional coaching certifications are a plus. "

Experience : 10+

Role Descriptions: Agile Specialisation
Essential Skills: Agile Coach
Desirable Skills:
Keyword:
Skills: Agile Specialisation
Experience Required: 10 & Above