Safe Agile Coach

Job Title: Safe Agile Coach

Location: Kansas City, KS – Should be local ; no relocation

Duration: 6 months

Requested skills: 

Agile Specialisation - 7 years

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.

•       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.

Key Responsibilities:

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.

Salary : $50 - $53