SAFe Agile Coach

Position: SAFe Agile Coach

Location: United States – Remote

Required Qualifications

• SAFe Certified professional with deep expertise in Apptio Target Process, Jira, and scaled agile delivery frameworks.
• Demonstrated knowledge of GxP-regulated projects in the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring compliance and audit readiness during Agile delivery.
• Skilled in the development and management of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to align program delivery with strategic business outcomes.
• Create and manage the overall delivery roadmap for the Next Generation Contracting (NGC) program, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives.
• Oversee program-level deliverables and milestones, ensuring measurable progress and alignment with key strategic priorities.
• Facilitate Agile at Scale ceremonies including Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums (SoS), and System Demos, enabling cross-team alignment and transparency.
• Lead quarterly release planning and iterative delivery cycles using Jira and Apptio Target Process, ensuring visibility and collaboration.
• Ensure completion of team-level Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives, fostering continuous improvement and team engagement.
• Guide backlog refinement and requirement prioritization with Product Owners, SMEs, and business stakeholders to ensure value delivery.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate cross-team dependencies, risks, and delivery impediments, maintaining forward momentum and stakeholder trust.
• Define, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) and OKRs at the team and program level to support data-informed decision-making.
• Act as a bridge between delivery teams and business stakeholders, ensuring strong engagement, expectation management, and delivery alignment.
• Coordinate with Organizational Change Management (OCM) and communications teams to facilitate stakeholder readiness, training, and agile adoption.
• Deliver agile coaching and training for delivery teams, SMEs, and business partners to build agile capability and increase maturity.
• Host product office hours and provide hands-on support to end users during deployment phases to ensure successful adoption.
• Champion agile best practices and continuous improvement efforts across teams, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• Ensure strategic alignment of the contracting transformation initiative with broader enterprise goals, contributing to a nimble, intelligent, and automated contract management capability.
• Support vendor management activities including resource onboarding/offboarding, knowledge transfer, performance reviews, and utilization tracking to ensure quality and accountability

Regards

Patrick Fernandez

Talent Acquisition Group - Strategic Recruitment Manager