Agile Coach

Agile Coach – Remote – Market Rates - 6 months+

My client, a global leading health insurer, is continuing their transition to more agile ways of working. As a result, they have an increasing need for coaching support.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on coaching to teams and individuals, helping them to understand and excel in agile practices.
• Facilitate the adoption of agile frameworks and methodologies across the organization.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and feedback loops.
• Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and coaching engagements to build agile capabilities.
• Encourage the use of metrics and data-driven decision-making to optimize delivery.
• Promote a customer-centric mindset within teams.
• Assist with economic decision-making and facilitate capability and feature estimation.
• Advocate for lean thinking and systems thinking in agile practices.
• Support the transition from traditional project management to agile methodologies across the enterprise.
• Foster Lean-Agile learning and provide necessary training to kick off and maintain the transformation.
• Coach leadership to lead by example and connect them to the voices of employees and suppliers.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in Agile transition and coaching.
• Proven track record as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or similar role.
• Strong understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills with a customer service-oriented approach, and a focus on building relationships with people at all levels of the organization.
• Experience with Lean Portfolio Management procedures and ceremonies.
• Demonstrated excellence in leadership ability to engage and motivate in a high-performance culture.
• Self-directed achiever who identifies opportunities to drive value and takes the lead.
• SAFe certification or equivalent agile certification preferred.
• Extensive experience managing software delivery; strong IT application development & leadership background preferred.
• Experience in leading organizational change from traditional project management to agile methodologies.