Highlights
Serve as a trusted Agile advisor and coach for leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams. This role serves as an Agile Coach, leading and facilitating the SAFe transformation across the MSA department and Global Initiatives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | OH |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
Description
Location Details: Raymond, OH
Work Type: Onsite (4 days/week)
W2 only
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Agile Leadership & Coaching
- Serve as a trusted Agile advisor and coach for leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams.
- Promote Agile values, principles, servant leadership, and Lean thinking across the organization.
- Develop Agile maturity through coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and training.
- Guide teams toward self-organization, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Foster psychological safety, trust, transparency, and collaboration.
Team Effectiveness & Continuous Improvement
- Facilitate retrospectives and improvement workshops.
- Help teams identify root causes of recurring challenges and implement sustainable improvements.
- Coach teams on metrics, flow optimization, and delivery predictability.
- Encourage experimentation and learning through Inspect & Adapt practices.
- Support development of high-performing teams and healthy team dynamics.
Agile Framework & Process Enablement
- Establish and standardize Agile practices across teams.
- Support Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including:
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Standups
- Sprint Reviews
- Retrospectives
- Scrum of Scrums
- PI Planning
- Inspect & Adapt Workshops
- Ensure consistent execution of Agile processes and governance.
Organizational Agility
- Partner with leaders to identify and remove organizational impediments.
- Support Agile transformation initiatives and cultural change efforts.
- Help establish Agile operating models, roles, and responsibilities.
- Promote alignment between strategy, priorities, and execution.
- Coach leaders on servant leadership and outcome-focused management approaches.
Value Delivery & Flow Optimization
- Improve visibility into work prioritization and delivery flow.
- Support dependency management across teams.
- Guide backlog refinement and value-driven planning.
- Help teams achieve greater predictability through planning and measurement.
- Encourage focus on customer and business outcomes rather than activity completion.
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BE WORKING ON
This role serves as an Agile Coach, leading and facilitating the SAFe transformation across the MSA department and Global Initiatives.
WANTS
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
- Equivalent Agile transformation experience may be considered.
Experience
- 5+ years applying Agile methodologies in product, project, or delivery environments.
- 3+ years coaching Agile teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, or organizational leaders.
- Experience facilitating workshops and driving organizational change.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders.
Agile Knowledge
- Deep understanding of:
- Agile Principles
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Lean Thinking
- Continuous Improvement
- SAFe Framework
- Value Stream Thinking
- Servant Leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
- SAFe Agilist (SA)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Lean Six Sigma certification
- Experience in manufacturing, smart factory, or digital transformation environments
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About Company
For over two decades, Sharp Decisions has provided superior, award-winning service in strategic business and technology consulting services to government agencies at all levels, as well as domestic and global corporations. With subject matter expertise in Investment Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Media & Telecommunications, and Manufacturing, Sharp Decisions is well equipped to serve your needs.
Established in 1990 with headquarters in New York City, and locations in Princeton, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Europe and Canada, Sharp Decisions has been the technology backbone for a client portfolio that includes an array of well-known companies. As a Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise and approved vendor, Sharp Decisions offers a powerful, cost-effective advantage. We actively partner with other MBEs to add value and meet diversity program requirements.
Sharp Decisions is also committed to hiring and training post-9/11, tech-savvy U.S. armed forces veterans through our V.E.T.S.â„¢ (Vocation, Education and Training for Service members) Program, but we cannot do it alone. Companies like EmblemHealth, Freddie Mac and Experian have stepped up to bring aboard our highly qualified and skilled veterans. We need more companies like them to take a stand and bring our veterans aboard. Our clients have told us that our veterans are more effective than their college hires because two weeks on the job for them equates to 2-3 years of experience! Learn more at www.sharpdecisions.com/vetsprogram.