Full-Time
Lead Agile Coach
Azure DevOps
Posted on 8/20/2026
Stafford Gray
No salary listed
Lansing, MI, USA
Hybrid
Two days on-site in Lansing per week; the remainder is remote.
Category
 DevOps & Infrastructure (1) |
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Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
Data Visualization
SCRUM
DevOps
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- At least 5 years of Agile coaching, Agile leadership, Scrum Master, Product Owner coaching, or Agile transformation experience.
- Demonstrated experience coaching multiple teams simultaneously.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, specifically Azure DevOps Boards.
- Experience establishing and managing Agile backlogs within Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Agile product management, backlog management, user story development, estimation and planning, Agile metrics, and continuous improvement.
- Experience coaching Product Owners, Scrum Masters, managers, and senior leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to assess team maturity and create practical improvement plans.
- Strong facilitation skills and experience leading workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work on-site in Lansing, Michigan two days per week.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead Agile Coach across multiple teams with varying Agile and Azure DevOps maturity.
- Assess current Agile practices and identify opportunities to improve team maturity, consistency, and adoption.
- Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban practices, backlog management, prioritization, estimation, planning, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate or coach teams through sprint and iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and demos, and retrospectives.
- Help teams consistently apply Agile practices in their daily work.
- Identify impediments to Agile adoption and work with leadership on practical solutions.
- Coach managers and Product and Service Owners on effectively performing the Product Owner role.
- Improve how work is defined and prioritized, how backlogs are built and maintained, and how epics, features, user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria are written.
- Help establish business priorities, manage stakeholder expectations, and measure outcomes and team performance.
- Provide leadership with recommendations for improving Agile maturity and sustaining long-term adoption.
- Partner with Azure DevOps specialists and client teams to establish and mature Azure DevOps Boards.
- Coach teams on effective use of Boards, Backlogs, epics, features, stories, tasks, Queries, Dashboards, work-item management, and sprint and iteration planning.
- Ensure Azure DevOps configuration and processes support each team's Agile operating model.
- Establish consistent standards and best practices across multiple Azure DevOps teams.
- Facilitate working sessions to build, organize, and refine team backlogs.
- Help teams translate business objectives into actionable work items.
- Improve story quality, acceptance criteria, estimation, prioritization, and definition of done.
- Establish practical processes teams can continue using independently after the coaching engagement.
- Help teams use metrics and dashboards to improve transparency, predictability, and decision-making.
- Evaluate the Agile maturity of individual teams and leadership groups.
- Develop actionable recommendations based on each team's maturity level.
- Identify training and coaching needs for managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, champions, and team members.
- Establish measurable Agile maturity goals and track progress.
- Help develop longer-term coaching, training, and adoption roadmaps.
- Build internal Agile champions capable of sustaining the practices after the engagement.
Desired Qualifications
- Agile coaching engagements within large enterprises or government and public-sector organizations.
- Experience implementing Agile practices with business, operations, security, compliance, asset management, or shared-services teams that are not traditional software-development teams.
- Experience with enterprise Agile transformations or Agile Centers of Excellence.
- Experience developing Agile maturity assessments and multi-year adoption roadmaps.
- Familiarity with DevOps concepts and the relationship between Agile delivery and DevOps practices.
- Certifications such as Certified Scrum Professional, Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, SAFe Practice Consultant, SAFe Agilist, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, or an Agile Coaching certification.