Scrum Lead

Role: Scrum Lead with experience in Mortgage, lending banking Domain
Location: Phoenix, AZ or Westlake, CA
Job Type: Contract
Rate: $60/hr

Job Descriptions:
Key Responsibilities
1. Build the Agile Transformation from Scratch
• Conduct enterprise discovery through stakeholder interviews, delivery-data review, team observations, and value-stream assessment.
• Baseline current Agile maturity, organizational constraints, delivery bottlenecks, cultural barriers, and readiness for change.
• Define the transformation vision, guiding principles, scope, success measures, governance, and phased roadmap.
• Design a fit-for-purpose Agile operating model covering roles, team topology, ceremonies, decision rights, portfolio alignment, and enterprise governance.
• Identify pilot value streams and teams, define entry and exit criteria, and guide pilots through launch, stabilization, learning, and scale-out.
• Establish an Agile Center of Excellence or coaching community to create standards, playbooks, learning paths, reusable assets, and internal coaching capacity.
• Create a sustainable adoption model that transitions ownership from external coaching to leaders, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and internal champions.
2. Executive and Organizational Coaching
• Coach executives and senior leaders on servant leadership, product thinking, outcome orientation, lean governance, and behaviors required for transformation.
• Facilitate leadership alignment workshops, transformation steering forums, roadmap reviews, and impediment-removal sessions.
• Coach leaders to shift from project output and utilization measures toward customer value, business outcomes, quality, predictability, and flow.
• Partner with HR, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Architecture, Procurement, and Operations to remove structural barriers to Agile adoption.
3. Team, Product, and Delivery Coaching
• Coach Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile delivery leads, and cross-functional teams in backlog management, prioritization, refinement, estimation, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Help teams clarify product vision, customer outcomes, value hypotheses, acceptance criteria, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done.
• Improve delivery flow by addressing dependencies, work in progress, handoffs, quality constraints, technical debt, and release friction.
• Guide teams in selecting Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid practices based on the nature of work while preserving Agile principles.
• Build communities of practice for Product Ownership, Scrum Mastery, Engineering Excellence, Quality, and Agile Leadership.
4. Digital Transformation Leadership
• Connect the Agile transformation to the digital strategy and translate transformation themes into prioritized, executable roadmaps.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams delivering digital customer journeys, cloud migration, application modernization, data and analytics, automation, AI/GenAI, and platform initiatives.
• Promote product and platform operating models that provide persistent ownership, reusable capabilities, and measurable business value.
• Enable discovery-to-delivery practices such as design thinking, customer research, minimum viable products, experimentation, hypothesis testing, and incremental releases.
• Partner with architecture, engineering, security, data, and operations teams to embed DevSecOps, automated quality, observability, and production readiness.
5. Metrics, Governance, and Continuous Improvement
• Define a balanced measurement framework covering business outcomes, customer value, flow, quality, predictability, team health, adoption, and capability growth.
• Use metrics such as lead time, cycle time, throughput, work-in-progress, escaped defects, release frequency, predictability, and outcome realization to drive learning, not individual performance evaluation.
• Create transparent transformation dashboards and executive-level reporting that highlight progress, risks, impediments, decisions, and benefits.
• Integrate Agile delivery with risk, regulatory, audit, security, financial, and change-control obligations without recreating unnecessary stage gates.
• Run periodic maturity reassessments and retrospectives, then adjust the roadmap based on evidence and stakeholder feedback.
6. Change Enablement and Capability Building
• Develop stakeholder maps, change-impact assessments, communication plans, role-based learning journeys, and adoption interventions.
• Design and facilitate workshops, boot camps, simulations, leadership sessions, and practical coaching engagements.
• Identify resistance patterns and address them through listening, data, experimentation, leadership sponsorship, and local change champions.
• Mentor internal coaches and practitioners and establish clear capability expectations for Agile roles.

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.