Job Description

Hybrid 3 to 4 days a week onsite in Fort Worth, TX

Our client seeks an experienced Agile Team Coach to elevate Agile maturity across multiple delivery teams. You will coach Scrum Masters and Product Owners, facilitate Scrum ceremonies, and drive measurable outcomes by improving team dynamics and backlog practices. You will partner with stakeholders to connect delivery to business value and collaborate with a coaching community to mature standards and tooling. AI fluency is expected to streamline coaching artifacts and support team workflows.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $95.00 to $85.00/hr. w2

• Coach Scrum Masters and Product Owners through hands-on facilitation, observation, and feedback to build capability.
• Guide and facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives to improve effectiveness and autonomy.
• Identify impediments, anti-patterns, and maturity gaps, then design and execute tailored improvement plans.
• Model servant leadership and foster continuous improvement, psychological safety, and accountability.
• Support Product Owners in building and maintaining outcome-oriented product backlogs.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, decompose epics, craft user stories, define acceptance criteria, and enable effective estimation.
• Champion backlog hygiene to ensure readiness for planning cycles and reduce rework.
• Translate business goals into Agile delivery strategies and connect work to organizational value.
• Communicate team health, velocity trends, and delivery risks in business-relevant terms.
• Align expectations with stakeholders, clarify priorities, and lead trade-off discussions.
• Collaborate with Agile coaches via Communities of Practice, shared retrospectives, and co-coaching.
• Contribute to Agile standards, playbooks, toolkits, and training materials.
• Share learnings and challenges to raise collective coaching capability and consistency.

• 5+ years in Agile coaching, Scrum Master, or related role with a record of measurable team improvement.
• Direct experience coaching Scrum Masters and Product Owners at the team level.
• Expertise in Scrum ceremonies, backlog management techniques, and prioritization frameworks.
• Proactive self-starter who identifies problems and proposes solutions.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to create pragmatic paths forward.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple team engagements in parallel.
• Business acumen linking software delivery to revenue, cost, customer experience, and strategy.
• Ability to communicate with executives, product leaders, and technical teams and adapt style to audience.
• Use of data and metrics such as cycle time, velocity, defect rates, and burndown to drive decisions.
• Collaborative mindset with a coaching community focus and relationship building across levels.
• Receptive to feedback and models growth mindset.
• AI fluency in tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Notion AI to produce coaching materials and summaries.
• Understanding of AI support for backlog refinement, dependency mapping, and sprint planning.
• Practical experimentation and iteration with AI and sharing outcomes with teams.
• Background in software development, product management, or business analysis (preferred).
• Familiarity with Agile tooling such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, and Confluence (preferred).
• Experience building or maturing an Agile coaching practice (preferred).
• Facilitation training or workshops experience (preferred).

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) (preferred).
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) (preferred).
• ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) (preferred).
• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) (preferred).
• PMI-ACP certification (preferred).

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening  and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( noreply@eliassen.com , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

· When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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