Hybrid Senior Agile Coach

at U.S. Bank

• Job title: Senior Agile Coach
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $119,765 - $140,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hopkins, United States

About the role

• Transformational leader coaching Agile practices across teams at U.S. Bank. Fostering environments for high-performing delivery while aligning with product transformation strategy.

Responsibilities

• The Sr. Agile Coach is a transformational leader responsible for fostering an Agile way of working across portfolios, products, and teams.
• This role creates an environment where teams can thrive by removing obstacles, improving flow, and enabling empowered, high-performing delivery.
• The coach promotes Agile values, principles, and practices while driving alignment with the organization’s product transformation strategy.
• This leader works across silos and product portfolios to strengthen cross-team coordination, establish dependency mapping, facilitate Scrum of Scrums, and support enterprise-level road mapping.
• They partner closely with Product Managers to shape product roadmaps, OKRs, healthy backlogs, and customer-centric delivery practices.
• This role requires a seasoned Agile practitioner capable of coaching at the team, leadership, and portfolio levels—bringing professional coaching skills, a mindset of continuous improvement, and the ability to influence culture change with clarity and urgency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant Agile delivery background: 5–10+ years of hands-on experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or blended models) and end-to-end software delivery in SDLC environments.
• Proven ability to operate in product-model environments: backlog management, prioritization, OKRs, MVP scoping, and cross-portfolio dependency mapping.
• Strong working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and CI/CD practices.
• Demonstrated capability to coach at all levels—teams, leaders, and portfolio stakeholders—using professional-grade facilitation, mentoring, and teaching techniques.
• Excellent communication, leadership, time-management, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to influence senior leadership and support organizational transformation initiatives.
• Recognized as a change catalyst who drives cultural adoption of Agile values, principles, and ways of working.
• Track record of improving flow, removing systemic impediments, and enabling high-performing, empowered teams.
• Skilled in using delivery metrics (e.g., OKRs, DORA, throughput, predictability) and information radiators to guide improvement and support data-informed coaching.
• Proficiency with Agile tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Dragonboat, and increasing use of Copilot-assisted workflows.
• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts sufficiently to partner effectively with engineering, compliance, and risk teams.
• Ability to work across complex organizational structures and partner across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Risk to align teams and delivery.
• Demonstrated curiosity, adaptability, and ongoing investment in professional growth; models continuous-improvement behaviors.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law