Agile coach

Agile Coach

The Agile Coach plays a critical role in enabling the SAP S/4HANA transformation by driving Lean-Agile adoption, coaching teams and leaders, and improving delivery maturity across Agile Release Trains to ensure consistent, high-quality value delivery and business alignment.

Lead the adoption of SAFe and Agile practices across SAP S/4HANA programs

Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, and Agile teams to improve

Agile maturity, self-organization, and delivery effectiveness:

Drive mindset shift from traditional SAP waterfall delivery to iterative, value-driven execution

Provide training, workshops, and coaching to embed Lean-Agile principles across teams

Establish good practices, playbooks, and standard operating procedures for Agile delivery

Support Agile Release Trains in adopting SAFe practices and improving execution

Guide teams in backlog refinement, story writing, estimation, and Agile ceremonies

Enable effective collaboration across SAP functional, technical, and integration teams

Ensure alignment between team execution and business priorities across SAP modules

Foster high-performing teams with a focus on quality, predictability, and continuous delivery

Coach teams and leaders in PI Planning preparation, execution, and follow-through

Ensure proper backlog readiness, dependency identification, and capacity planning practices

Support Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, and other ART events to improve execution

Guide teams in delivering PI Objectives aligned with business outcomes and SAP roadmap

Drive adoption of Inspect and Adapt practices for continuous improvement

Analyze team and ART performance using metrics

Identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities across SAP delivery lifecycle, ensuring consistency of Agile practices across ARTs

Facilitate retrospectives, root cause analysis, and problem-solving sessions

Promote DevOps practices, automation, and continuous integration within S/4HANA delivery

Drive adoption of Lean principles to improve flow and reduce waste

Ensure adherence to Agile governance frameworks, quality standards for SAP delivery

Align Agile practices with enterprise architecture, compliance, and SAP template standards

Support implementation of Agile metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms

Partner with executive leadership, business owners, and program stakeholders

Provide coaching to leaders on Lean-Agile mindset, decision-making, and org. change

Facilitate alignment between business strategy, SAP roadmap, and Agile execution

Act as a trusted advisor for Agile adoption across the SAP S/4HANA transformation

Communicate progress of Agile adoption, risks, and improvement opportunities SAP S/4HANA Transformation Enablement

Enable coordination across fun ctional, technical, data, and integration workstreams

Support delivery alignment with SAP Activate methodology and hybrid Agile–Waterfall rollout model

Qualifications:

SAP S/4HANA & Technical Understanding

Solid understanding of SAP S/4HANA implementation lifecycle

Experience working with SAP functional areas such as Finance (FI), Integrated Supply Chain, Lead to Cash and Information Technology Outsourcing etc.