Senior Agile Coach: Portfolio & Intake Enablement

Duke Energy Corporation; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Duke Energy Corporation is seeking a Sr. Agilist to coach multiple teams and lead large-scale Agile initiatives in Charlotte, NC. The role emphasizes Scrum Master duties for the Common Intake team, collaboration with Product Owners, and driving value delivery across streams.

You will guide team maturity, support prioritization, refine backlogs, and foster transparency and self-organization. A Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of related experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; four+ years of related work experience.
• Alternative: HS/GED with six+ years of related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Guides team maturity by introducing new concepts and disciplines for value delivery.
• Coaches and facilitates development teams through all aspects of the Agile process, including release planning, sprint planning, daily standups, product demos, backlog refinement, Scrum of Scrums when using Scrum, and retrospectives.
• Serves as Scrum Master for the Common Intake team, facilitating team planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other working sessions necessary to advance intake work.
• Partners with the Common Intake Product Owner and stakeholders to maintain a well-defined, prioritized, and actionable intake backlog aligned with business value and organizational priorities.
• Facilitates refinement of incoming requests to help ensure work is sufficiently understood, appropriately scoped, and ready for evaluation and prioritization.
• Proactively prevents potential roadblocks and barriers.
• Proactively manages dependencies and risks.
• Demonstrates ownership by building and capitalizing on inter-team relationships for managing dependencies and risks.
• Identifies and proactively addresses bottlenecks, impediments, dependencies, and process gaps that slow intake decisions or transition of approved work into delivery.
• Promotes transparency into intake demand, work in progress, blockers, dependencies, decisions, and the overall flow of work through the intake process.
• Demonstrates appropriate judgment on when it is time to help the team pivot. This can include, but is not limited to, changing priorities and technology changes.
• Identifies and addresses areas where psychological safety concerns exist.
• Demonstrates a proven track record of success in Agile product delivery, knowledge of best practices, and the ability to provide leadership oversight and planning of development activities.
• Provides metrics to support data-driven decision-making and delivery of value.
• Uses Agile and flow-based measures to identify improvement opportunities and increase transparency into the effectiveness of the Common Intake process.
• Demonstrates the ability to navigate various layers of the organization, identify allies, and coordinate with other teams to improve delivery of value to the customer.
• Facilitates cross-functional collaboration among requestors, Product, Architecture, Technology, Delivery, and other stakeholders involved in evaluating and advancing Common Intake requests.

Skills

Agile coaching

Scrum Master

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Duke Energy Corporation is seeking a Sr. Agilist to coach multiple teams and lead large-scale Agile initiatives in Charlotte, NC. The role emphasizes Scrum Master duties for the Common Intake team, collaboration with Product Owners, and driving value delivery across streams.

You will guide team maturity, support prioritization, refine backlogs, and foster transparency and self-organization. A Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of related experience are required.