Agile Coach

What you will be doing:
Coaching & Mentoring

• Coach teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and leaders in Agile values, principles, roles, and ceremonies in scaled and multi-team environments

• Mentor Product Owners on backlog prioritization, refinement, and stakeholder engagement in support of multi-team quarterly and annual goals

• Support teams in self-organization, collaboration, continuous improvement, and constructive conflict resolution across teams and leadership levels

Team of Teams Support

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and support successful delivery of shared outcomes

• Lead or support multi-team planning, roadmap sessions, reviews, and retrospectives

• Identify and help resolve cross-team and cross-division dependencies, risks, and delivery challenges

• Support the development and adoption of processes and tools for capturing and escalating impediments, decisions, and risks across teams

Assessment & Continuous Improvement

• Assess team structures and delivery processes for multi-team collaborative work and recommend practical improvements

• Recommend and help implement Agile practices, tools, and techniques that improve collaboration and delivery flow

• Introduce or refine delivery metrics (flow, predictability, etc.) to track progress against multi-team goals

Change Management & Organizational Support

• Support organizational adoption of multi-team Agile practices while aligning with public-sector governance requirements

• Facilitate workshops and large-group planning or visioning sessions with internal and external stakeholders

Facilitation & Enablement

• Lead or support scaled Agile events (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives)

• Facilitate workshops and coordination meetings that drive alignment and delivery

• Support teams in documenting requirements, decisions, and delivery artefacts (primarily using tools such as Jira and Confluence)

Key Deliverables

• Coaching plans and Agile maturity guidance for multiple delivery teams

• Facilitation of cross-team planning, retrospectives, workshops, and alignment sessions

• Recommendations and documentation for team-of-teams structures and process improvements

• Regular reporting on Agile maturity, delivery metrics, and progress

• Clear documentation of decisions and processes

• Knowledge transfer that builds sustainable internal capability

What you must have:

• Minimum 5 years coaching in scaled Agile and multi-team environments (experience with at least 5 teams)

• Demonstrated experience coaching teams, leaders, and teams-of-teams in Agile values, principles, ceremonies, and roles

• Experience assessing and improving team-of-teams structures and delivery processes

• Experience facilitating multi-team large-scale planning and strategic workshops

• Experience in, or strong understanding of, public or regulated sector environments

• Excellent communication, facilitation, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills

Preferred Experience

• Experience with connected services, cross-ministry, or complex multi-program delivery environments

• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and modern digital delivery frameworks

Other Information:

• Initial term: 1 year, with up to three optional 1-year extensions

• Remote work is supported, with core availability required during standard Pacific Time business hours

• Strong preference for candidates who can operate effectively in a public-sector context and leave lasting capability behind

Salary/Pay Rate: $115.00/ hour

Term: British Columbia 1-year contract (with up to 3 optional 1-year extensions)

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.