Senior Agile Coach in GREATER ST. LOUIS

General Information:

Fully Remote- Open to any time zone with some schedule flexibility but the worker must be available during the core working hours of 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CST

U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders only

Must be able to work on our W2- No C2C.

Initial Contract is listed from 6/9/2025- 6/9/2026 with the opportunity to extend/ convert into a full time employee down the road.

Duties:

An Senior Agile Coach helps a teams or individual adopt and improve agile methods and practice. A coach helps people rethink and change the way they go about development. The coach can help teams apply agile and lean thinking to the specific environments and impediments they face. Working as an advisor, the coach can help the team adapt the methodology to their situation, and help them challenge the existing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the strategic business agility planning for the whole organization
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of applicable standards for Agile processes across teams
• Develop, collect, maintain, and leverage learning materials between teams
• Develop dashboards of the health of the organization that enhance transparency. This includes but is not limited to metrics and reporting.
• Promoted, implement and maintain tooling that promotes agility, e.g. Confluence, Trello, Jira
• Provide leadership for other coaches, scrum masters and members of the agility team
• Recruit and train new agility team (Scrum Masters/ Coaches) members.
• Continually introduce new ideas and fresh experiments to our organization from those that we respect
• Encourage teams to adhere to the rules of scrum and their delivery
• Hold teams accountable to their commitment to complete work to satisfy their definition of done, and escalate when necessary
• Drive teams toward continuous improvement, e.g. help lead retrospectives to actionable outcomes
• Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely manner
• Facilitate team development, healthy team dynamics, self-organization, and transparency
• Empower teams to become self-sufficient and rely less on external assistance, e.g. Scrum Master
• Keep a positive energy to motivate and engage teams

Qualifications:

• 5- 7 years of experience required
• Experience with using Agile and Lean practices, and monitoring and tracking tools, including Confluence, Trello, Jira, and Survey Monkey.
• Certifications such as CSM Certification (Certified Scrum Master)
• [SPC or similar Preferred]
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and empowerment