Agile Coach

2 weeks ago

Houston, United States Pinnacle Group, Inc. Full time

Agile Coach

Houston, Texas

Only looking candidates who are willing to work on W2 pay term. No C2C pay term allowed for this role.


Job Description:


We are seeking a Team Coach to join the Market Risk organization, which is currently going through an exciting transformation journey. This is a hands-on role able to effectively lead, inspire and guide about three agile teams in their growth on that journey.

Team Coaches are experienced leaders and change agents to coach and guide teams, individuals, leadership and the organization towards organizational adaptability and effective delivery, while understanding and respecting their context. They are accountable for supporting the transformation strategy of the organization across mindset, culture, structure and practices working with the Senior Agility Leader within Market Risk Technology and the Corporate Technology Agility Office.

Finally, they are accountable for team effectiveness and adoption of agile practices, such as Scrum and Kanban, for their teams and across the organization. Our Team Coaches have several years of software development experience such as leadership, engineering, or testing, and several years of Scrum Master and agile team coaching experience.


Key responsibilities

• Acts as a catalyst of positive change, inspiring and motivating individuals to embrace an agile mindset.

• Mentors, coaches, and supports individuals, teams and the organization across mindset, culture, practices and structure towards organizational adaptability and delivery effectiveness.

• Facilitates highly effective events and sessions for the teams and organization as needed, such as reviews, retrospectives, workshops and training.

• Continually builds their knowledge and grows the knowledge of the teams and organization with the latest advancements in agility.

• Partners with agile thought leadership across the organization to solve problems and increase adoption and understanding.

• Supports and enables effective approaches for de-scaling and scaling agility ensuring transparency and reduction of handoffs and dependencies across teams of teams.

• Supports the removal of impediments to increasing agility and effectiveness for the team and the organization.

• Cultivates the health and the effectiveness of teams through qualitative and quantitative measures along key dimensions of culture, practices, mindset and structure, while ensuring appropriate usage of the measures by the teams and the organization.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Expert in agile and lean practices and approaches

• Scrum Master and Team Coaching certifications: PSM 2/3, A-CSM, CSP-SM, ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, ICE-AC.

• Solid understanding of de-scaling and scaling approaches for agility, such as Team Topologies, Nexus, LeSS, Scrum of Scrums, Scrum at Scale, SAFe.

• Ability to collaborate and influence people at various levels.

• Deep understanding of the core skills of facilitating, coaching, mentoring, training and leading in an agile lean context.

• Several years of software development experience such as leadership, engineering, or testing.

• Several years of Scrum Master and agile team coaching experience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Tools: Jira, Jira Align, Lucidspark, Confluence; or similar.

• Financial Services or regulatory industry experience.


  • Proficient in the following: Agile Methodology
  • Project Task Estimation
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Risk and Issue Management
  • Agile methods
  • Work breakdown and critical path method
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Critical Thinking (anticipates problems and establishes methods to mitigate project/program risks)
  • Budget/Financial Management including Business Case completion
  • Executive communications for senior management

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