Lead Agilist

Description:
On-site in Cincinnati, OH

Our client seeks a Lead Agilist to coach and facilitate Agile Squads within Commercial IT. The role shall foster adoption of Agile and Scrum values, enable high-performing teams, and drive delivery of business value. The Lead Agilist shall guide Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, mentor Product Owners and Developers on backlog management, and cultivate a trusting environment that supports collaboration, problem solving, and risk awareness.

The position shall model servant leadership and leverage data, metrics, and feedback loops to inspect and adapt practices.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $65.00 to $70.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Coach Agile Squads on Scrum values, principles, and framework while modeling servant leadership.
• Facilitate Scrum events and ensure value from Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement.
• Mentor Product Owners and Development Teams on effective backlog management, clarity of outcomes, and definition of success.
• Enable self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, dependency and risk management, and conflict resolution.
• Promote collaborative, safe, and trusting environments where issues are raised and resolved openly.
• Use observations and powerful questions to surface problems and guide creative solutions.
• Shield teams from external interference and remove impediments or escalate when required.
• Leverage empirical data, metrics, and feedback loops to drive inspect-and-adapt practices.
• Apply concepts from Dev Ops, CI/CD, testing frameworks, and other Agile methods such as Kanban, Scrumban, XP, and Mob programming.
• Coach stakeholders outside the squad on Agile practices and organizational impacts.
• Adhere to risk policies and promote a positive customer experience through consistent risk identification and reporting.

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of full-time business experience.
• 3+ years of Scrum experience.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience presenting, teaching, mentoring, and facilitating across organizational levels.
• Proven ability to remove impediments and communicate outside the team.
• Coaching skills to convey complex messages and teach new concepts.
• Ability to resolve interpersonal and organizational conflicts.
• Commitment to continuous learning in Agile, Scrum, coaching, facilitation, emotional intelligence, and team dynamics.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle disciplines, including project management, requirements, analysis and design, quality assurance and testing, implementation, deployment, and change management.
• Working knowledge of practices that support agility such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test-Driven Development, and automated testing.
• Working knowledge of Agile frameworks including Kanban, Scrumban, XP, and Mob programming.
• Ability to set and align priorities and goals in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated servant leadership and team-first mindset.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

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