AGILE PROCESS LEAD 4 (ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH)

About the role

The role involves promoting, developing, and supporting both team and organizational agile maturity with a focus on reliably delivering value in the shortest time. The role also orchestrates team and stakeholder interactions to maximize the value created.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-level Agile coaching to executives, portfolio leaders, release train leadership, service managers, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Coach organizations using SAFe frameworks, including Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Release Trains, Solution Trains, and team-level Scrum practices.
• Coach service-delivery teams leveraging Kanban at Scale, focusing on flow efficiency, systems thinking, service-level expectations, and work visualization.
• Facilitate enterprise transformation activities: value stream identification, operating-model redesign, governance optimization, and flow-of-value improvements.
• Lead maturity assessments, transformation roadmaps, and multi-year agility strategies.
• Mentor Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, RTEs, Product Owners, Service Managers, and Kanban Leads.
• Design and deliver training on SAFe, Kanban, lean-agile leadership, modern product management, flow metrics, and continuous improvement.
• Establish capability frameworks for Agile roles and develop coaching frameworks and playbooks.
• Partner closely with senior leaders to ensure alignment between strategic objectives, portfolio investments, and lean governance structures.
• Guide teams in applying lean metrics such as flow time, throughput, WIP mapping, predictability measures, OKRs, and value realization metrics.
• Enhance organizational learning through communities of practice, brown bag sessions, and cross-team mentoring initiatives.
• Model lean-agile leadership behaviors and serve as an advocate for enterprise-wide cultural change.

Requirements

• Promising experience coaching within a SAFe environment including portfolio, program, and team layers.
• Strong background coaching Kanban systems, particularly in service-delivery or operational environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and senior leaders through data-driven insights and facilitation.
• Experience leading large-scale agile/lean transformations in complex organizations.
• Deep expertise in systems thinking, lean flow, organizational design, and modern product delivery.
• Strong facilitation skills for strategy workshops, PI Planning events, OKR development, and flow mapping sessions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for different audiences.

Qualifications

• Proven experience coaching within a SAFe environment including portfolio, program, and team layers.
• Strong background coaching Kanban systems, particularly in service-delivery or operational environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and senior leaders through data-driven insights and facilitation.
• Experience leading large-scale agile/lean transformations in complex organizations.
• Deep expertise in systems thinking, lean flow, organizational design, and modern product delivery.
• Strong facilitation skills for strategy workshops, PI Planning events, OKR development, and flow mapping sessions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for different audiences.

Skills

• Agile process certification.
• 10+ years’ experience in Agile coaching, with at least 5 years at enterprise or portfolio level.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental and vision plan choices, on-site health centers, tele-medicine, wellness resources, employee assistance programs, savings plan options (401K), financial education and planning tools, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships, and more.

Pay

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Schedule

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