Experience: 12+ Years

Location: Bangalore

ROLE SUMMARY

What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

The Senior Agile Coach is accountable for accelerating adoption and maturity of Agile ways of working across teams and functions to improve efficiency, collaboration, and value delivery. The role coaches teams and leaders to embed Agile principles, practices, and behaviours, partnering with stakeholders to enable continuous improvement and sustainable delivery performance.

Able to provide recommendation at Enterprise level incl. leadership routines, decision rights, governance, incentives, and portfolio flow—the “system around teams involved in product development.” Responsible for removing systemic friction and enabling business agility, not only teaching frameworks.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Lead Agile transformation and maturity across teams, programmes, or functions
- Coach and mentor teams, Product Owners, and leaders on Agile principles, frameworks, and best practices
- Support the adoption of relevant to context/work type Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Spotify, SAFe where applicable)
- Identify and remove impediments to improve team performance and delivery flow
- Facilitate key Agile ceremonies and workshops where needed (e.g. retrospectives, planning sessions)
- Partner with stakeholders to improve collaboration, prioritisation, and ways of working
- Define and embed Agile standards, practices, and metrics
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance delivery effectiveness and team engagement
- Support cultural change towards Agile mindsets and behaviours
- Leadership coaching & agile operating model enablement (business agility)
- Helps leaders build durable internal capability rather than dependency on a single coach
- Diagnosing where work stalls (intake, funding, dependencies, risk/release gates)



and redesigning conditions so teams can deliver predictably and safely.
- Lean Portfolio Management - enabling portfolio-to-execution alignment and helping organizations choose fit-for-context scaling approaches (rather than “textbook one metod e.g. SAFe”).
- Culture & change enablement (human side of transformation) —influencing without being authoritarian; working through resistance; building collaboration, safety, and continuous learning.
- Building the coaching system (CoP/CoE capability building)

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE

ESSENTIAL

Experience Required

- Significant experience in Agile coaching, delivery
- Experience working across multiple teams or large-scale Agile environments
- Experience coaching both teams and senior stakeholders
- Strong understanding of team level and scaled Agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, LESS, SAFe)
- Experience driving organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives
- Enterprise scale Agile transformation experience - proven experience leading or enabling Agile transformation beyond single teams
- Executive and senior leadership coaching
- Ability to effectively influence leadership behavior, decision making, and ways of working
- Trusted advisor posture (not framework enforcement)
- Experience diagnosing and improving organizational systems, not just team practices
- Portfolio, planning, and governance exposure – designed or led valued management system/Lean Portfolio Management




- Advanced Agile & Lean practice mastery - deep, hands on experience with:
- Scrum, Kanban, and/or scaled approaches
- Ability to adapt practices to context, not apply them prescriptively
- Seen as a practitioner with lived experience, not only a trainer
- Experience leading or enabling cultural change
- Handling resistance, ambiguity, and competing stakeholder interests
- Experience building internal Agile capability, such as:
- Communities of Practice
- Coaching networks / CoEs
- Enablement models
- Focus on sustainability beyond the coach’s direct involvement
- Cross functional and cross domain exposure
- Experience working across:
- IT / Technology
- Business functions (Finance, HR, Operations, Product)
- Ability to bridge business and technology perspectives

Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required

- Deep knowledge of Agile principles, frameworks, and practices
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills
- Excellent facilitation and workshop management capabilities
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to identify and address organisational and team-level challenges
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to operate in complex, matrix organisations
- Leadership skills focused on enablement

Education / Qualifications / Certifications Required

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in MBA, Change Management, Business
- - ICAgile – ICP‑ENT (Enterprise Agile Coaching: strategy, structure, leadership, culture).
- Coaching across the organization (not just teams)
- Systems & complexity thinking
- Organizational design & business agility
- Executive & leadership coaching
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certfied Product Owner
- Kanban Management Professional (KMP)
- Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Certification
- LESS
- Secure

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