Senior Agile Coach - Azure DevOps & Enterprise Delivery

Stafford Gray

Town of Lansing (NY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Stafford Gray is seeking an experienced Agile Leadership and Coaching professional to lead Agile transformation across multiple teams, coach Product Owners and Scrum Masters, and partner with Azure DevOps specialists to mature ADO boards.

The role requires coaching across teams with varying Agile maturity, facilitating ceremonies, improving backlog management, and delivering practical, measurable outcomes while working on-site in Lansing, Michigan two days per week.

Qualifications

8+ years in Agile delivery environments.
5+ years coaching or transformation experience.
Experience coaching multiple teams simultaneously.
Hands-on with Azure DevOps and ADO Boards.
Experience establishing and managing Agile backlogs in Azure DevOps.
Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and Agile product management, backlog management, estimation and planning, metrics, and continuous improvement.
Coaching Product Owners, Scrum Masters, managers, and senior leaders.
Ability to assess team maturity and create practical improvement plans.
Strong facilitation skills and ability to lead workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Able to work on-site in Lansing, Michigan two days per week.

Responsibilities

Provide Agile leadership across multiple teams with varying maturity.
Assess current Agile practices and identify opportunities for improvement.
Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban, backlog management, prioritization, estimation, planning, and continuous improvement.
Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
Help teams move from Agile terminology to consistent practices.
Identify impediments to Agile adoption and work with leadership on solutions.
Coach managers and Product/Service Owners on performing the Product Owner role.
Improve how work is defined, prioritized, and how epics, features, user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria are written.
Help establish business priorities, manage stakeholder expectations, and measure outcomes.
Provide leadership with recommendations for improving Agile maturity and sustaining adoption.
Partner with Azure DevOps teams to mature ADO boards and configurations across teams.
Ensure boards, backlogs, epics/features/stories/tasks, queries, dashboards, and work-items support Agile operating models.
Establish standards and best practices across multiple ADO teams.
Facilitate sessions to build and refine team backlogs and translate business objectives into actionable work items.
Improve story quality, acceptance criteria, estimation, prioritization, and definition of done.
Create practical processes teams can use after engagement and help teams use metrics for transparency.