SAFe Agile Coach

Role: SAFe Agile Coach

Location:

Kansas City

Job Description:

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. "

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