Agile Coach

Job Title

Agile Coach

Location:

Troy, Michigan.

Job Type

Contract

Expected Hours Per Week

40 hours per week

Schedule

9 AM – 5 PM, Monday–Friday, Hybrid

Pay Range

$49 – 51 per hour

Role Overview

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced Scrum Master / Agile Coach to support engineering and technical product teams within a large enterprise environment. This role focuses on driving Agile maturity, improving team performance, and enabling high?quality, predictable delivery in an ASPICE?aligned organization.

What You’ll Do

• Coach teams to embrace Agile values, principles, and best practices (Scrum, Kanban, WIP limits, Definition of Done)
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies including daily stand?ups, sprint planning, reviews, demos, and retrospectives
• Improve team performance across quality, velocity, predictability, and flow
• Identify, track, and remove impediments by partnering with stakeholders across the organization
• Enable self?organizing, accountable, high?performing teams
• Drive continuous improvement through effective retrospectives and actionable outcomes
• Assess Agile maturity and coach teams to higher levels at a sustainable pace
• Build a psychologically safe team environment focused on trust, learning, and problem?solving
• Support Product Owners with backlog grooming, prioritization, and realistic sprint planning
• Coach teams on estimation, planning, work breakdown, and delivery follow?through
• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning preparation and follow?up
• Ensure strong collaboration with Scrum Coordinators and Software Quality Assurance (SQA) teams
• Improve transparency through clear communication and Agile tooling (Jira, Confluence)

Required Skills

• 3+ years of Scrum Master experience supporting engineering or technical teams
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum practices with pragmatic application
• Experience working across the software or systems development lifecycle
• Proven ability to coordinate cross?team dependencies and external stakeholders
• Strong facilitation, communication, and coaching skills
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Agile delivery tools
• Comfortable participating in technical discussions to unblock teams

Preferred Skills

• Experience in ASPICE?aligned or ASPICE?compliant environments
• Background supporting automotive, embedded, or enterprise engineering teams

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (required)
• Engineering degree strongly preferred

Certifications (Nice to Have)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• ASPICE training with hands?on project experience