Agile Coach

Agile Coach

Location – Chicago/ Remote

Exp need – 10+ years

Job Description

• Coach entire organizations and programs - not just individual teams
• Design and execute a multi-team agile transformation program with measurable milestones
• Operate as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership - providing candid, data-backed input on delivery health
• Design ADO structure for multi-team environments: area paths, team configurations, cross-team dependency tracking, portfolio-level visibility
• Implement at scale: overall retrospectives, cross-team sprint synchronization, area product ownership, self-selection processes
• Lead without authority - influence vendor teams, internal teams, and organizational structures
• Design and implement a comprehensive metrics framework: flow, stability (DORA), quality, and backlog health
• Shift engineering culture from output-focused to outcome-focused - and sustain that shift
• Facilitate difficult organizational conversations: between PMO and engineering, between vendors and product, between teams and leadership
• Build SM capability in others - mentor junior and mid-level SMs, identify gaps, provide structured coaching

What We Are Specifically Looking For at This Level

• Demonstrated scaled experience - not just familiarity, actual operation in or implementation
• DORA metrics literacy - can explain what deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and MTTR mean and how to improve them
• Experience challenging and changing organizational structures that block team effectiveness - not just working around them
• Evidence of having built and sustained psychological safety on teams that were previously defensive or siloed
• Ability to run executive-level conversations using delivery data - not status updates, constraint analysis

Standards We Expect From a Sr SM / Agile Coach

• Operates across multiple teams simultaneously with full situational awareness on each
• Produces a quarterly maturity assessment for each team with trend data and forward plan
• Drives DORA metric baseline: deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR are tracked and improving
• Cross-team impediments are owned and driven to resolution - not left in a shared log
• Contributes to the engineering standards playbook - not just applies it
• Conducts structured capability reviews for junior and mid-level SMs under their oversight

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.