Agile Coach - Senior
Randstad Digital Americas · Richardson, TX · Yesterday
Engineering$65.37–$68.37/hrFull-time
Job Summary
Can be fully remote anywhere near a Client branch (Austin, Westlake, Denver, Pheonix)
W2 candidates only!
Key Responsibilities
- Value Management & Benefits Realization
- Support and operationalize enterprise benefits realization frameworks, including tracking, validation, and reporting
- Partner with business and technology teams to define value hypotheses, KPIs, and outcome measures
- Execute value measurement processes that connect delivery outputs to business outcomes
- Ensure consistency and integrity of value data across tools (e.g., Clarity, BI reporting)
- Portfolio Operations Execution
- Execute and continuously improve Lean-Agile Portfolio Workflows, Including Intake & demand management
- Prioritization support
- Execution tracking
- Maintain and enhance portfolio operating practices, SOPs, and templates
- Serve as a subject matter expert for portfolio processes and user adoption
- Prioritization, OKRs & Alignment Support
- Facilitate and enable prioritization processes by preparing data, insights, and trade-off scenarios
- Aid teams in defining and refining OKRs tied to strategic themes
- Translate portfolio-level strategy into execution-ready artifacts and metrics
- Reporting, Insights & Decision Support
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting artifacts that show value realization
- Delivery performance, progress against strategic objectives
- Provide data-driven insights to governance forums and leadership reviews
- Partner with data teams to ensure reporting accuracy and alignment to standards
- Process Design & Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to the design and refinement of end-to-end portfolio processes
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements in workflow design
- Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops and metrics
- Change Management & Enablement Support
- Rollout of new portfolio practices via training materials
- Cross-Functional Partnership
- Collaborate with Portfolio Governance teams (decision enablement)
Requirements
- 5-8+ years in Portfolio Management, PMO, Value Management, or related disciplines
- Experience with: Lean-Agile practices and portfolio operations, Reporting / analytics (Power BI, Tableau, etc.), Process execution and improvement
- Strong analytical, facilitation, and communication skills
- Refines strategies and workflows to ensure adaptability in evolving circumstances
- Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights
- Establishes communication processes for smooth information flow with others involved in a project or effort
- Collaborates across teams, facilitates partnerships, and supports cooperative efforts
- Provides thought leadership in the business area and independently drives strategic initiatives
- Supports peers in technical areas to refine their knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Influences best practices to plan to prepare for opportunities or challenges
- Champions innovative solutions to improve efficiency
- Influences decisions that drive functional success and operational improvements
- Acts to achieve success in situations that require more action than what is normal
- Verbally articulates ideas impactfully, fostering open dialogue
- Inspires confidence with proven expertise, integrity, and accurate communication
- Presents compelling arguments to inspire action
- Sets performance-driven goals across groups and drives continuous improvement
- Leverages diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs
- Creates clear, persuasive, and professional written documents that meet business standards
Qualifications
- Location: Telecommute
- Job Type: Contract
- Salary: $65.37 - 68.37 per hour
- Work Hours: 8am to 5pm
- Education: Bachelors