Agile Coach​/Scrum

Agile Coach / Scrum

Location:

NYC, NY (5 Days Onsite) – Duration: 6 Months Contract

• Candidate with 8 to 10 years of experience.
• 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.
• 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.