Senior Agile Coach - Azure DevOps & Team Enablement

The Stafford Gray Group; Town of Lansing (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Stafford Gray Group is seeking a hands-on Agile Leadership Coach to guide multiple teams in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, collaborating with management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and developers.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence in Lansing, MI two days per week with remote work the remaining days, focusing on coaching teams to adopt and sustain practical Agile practices and Azure DevOps processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Agile delivery environments.
• 5+ years coaching Agile leadership, Scrum Masters, or Product Owners.
• Demonstrated experience coaching multiple teams simultaneously.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, specifically ADO Boards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead Agile Coach across multiple teams with varying Agile maturity.
• Assess current Agile practices and identify opportunities to improve team maturity, consistency, and adoption.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban practices, backlog management, prioritization, estimation, planning, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate sprint and iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and demos, and retrospectives.
• Help teams move from Agile terminology to consistently applying Agile practices in daily work.
• Identify impediments to Agile adoption and work with leadership on practical solutions.
• Coach managers and Product/Service Owners on effectively performing the Product Owner role.
• Improve how work is defined and prioritized, how backlogs are built and maintained, and how epics/features/user stories are written.
• Help establish clear business priorities, manage stakeholder expectations, and measure outcomes and team performance.
• Provide leadership with recommendations for improving Agile maturity and sustaining long-term adoption.
• Partner with Azure DevOps specialists to establish and mature ADO boards.
• Coach teams on Boards, Backlogs, epics/features/stories/tasks, Queries, Dashboards, and sprint planning.

Skills

Agile coaching

Azure DevOps

Scrum Master

Product Owner coaching

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

The Stafford Gray Group is seeking a hands-on Agile Leadership Coach to guide multiple teams in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, collaborating with management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and developers.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence in Lansing, MI two days per week with remote work the remaining days, focusing on coaching teams to adopt and sustain practical Agile practices and Azure DevOps processes.