Agile Coach Consultant - 6-Month Contract

Our client is seeking an experienced Agile Coach Consultant to support engineering and product teams in embedding sustainable Agile and Kanban practices. This is a remote consulting engagement requiring 2 days per week for 6 months, with monthly review checkpoints.

Engagement: 2 days per week for 6 months, remote, with working-hours overlap into the South African business day and, where possible, US Eastern time.

Salary: Hourly, market related.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach multiple engineering and product teams concurrently in Agile/Kanban ways of working.
• Facilitate Agile, Kanban and flow-based practices to improve delivery effectiveness.
• Apply Scrum fundamentals and provide guidance to Scrum Masters and delivery teams.
• Define, monitor and report on delivery and flow metrics, including cycle time, throughput, WIP and predictability.
• Use Flight Levels and other flow-based approaches to identify and address delivery constraints.
• Configure and optimise workflow tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ClickUp or Asana.
• Drive sustainable behavioural and process improvements across teams.
• Leverage LLM technology to support teams in improving their practices and delivery outcomes.
• Work closely with the CTO and collaborate with the DevOps consultant responsible for delivery dashboards and data pipelines.

Requirements

• Kanban Coach certification such as AKC, or Flight Levels Coach certification such as FLC.
• Proven experience as a Scrum Master.
• Relevant Agile/Kanban coaching certification, such as AKC, FLC or ICP-ACC, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Strong practical knowledge of Kanban, Flight Levels and Scrum.
• Demonstrated experience coaching multiple teams simultaneously.
• Experience working with flow and delivery metrics.
• Experience configuring Agile workflow platforms.
• Experience applying LLM technology to improve team effectiveness.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Valid right to work in the applicable jurisdiction.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Submit your CV to ***email_hidden*** or call 021 555 0432.

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