PUNE · FULLTIME
Sr Lead, Agile Coach
Northern Trust
Pune · onsite · Posted 4d ago
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Section · 01
About this role
Job Summary
Agile Leadership and Coaching
Release Train and Program Facilitation
Delivery Management and Execution
Key Responsibilities
Metrics, Governance and Continuous Improvement
Stakeholder and Change Management
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
We are seeking an experienced Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer (RTE) to lead Agile transformation initiatives and enable effective delivery across multiple Agile teams and value streams. The role combines enterprise Agile coaching with program-level execution leadership, including PI Planning, ART coordination, delivery governance, dependency and risk management, metrics, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will influence without authority, coach leaders and teams, strengthen execution discipline, and create transparency from strategy through delivery outcomes.
Agile Leadership and Coaching
- Coach leaders, Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams on Lean-Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices.
- Drive Agile maturity by establishing consistent ways of working, coaching teams through change, and reinforcing outcome-based delivery.
- Mentor Scrum Masters and team coaches to strengthen facilitation, servant leadership, impediment resolution, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with leadership to improve organizational agility, value flow, execution discipline, and cross-functional collaboration.
Release Train and Program Facilitation
- Facilitate PI Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt sessions, and other program-level events.
- Establish and communicate Program Increment calendars, planning milestones, readiness criteria, and operating cadences.
- Coordinate multiple Agile teams to align objectives, commitments, dependencies, capacity, and delivery milestones.
- Consolidate and communicate team PI objectives into program-level objectives with clear ownership and visibility.
Delivery Management and Execution
- Manage and optimize the flow of value across the Agile Release Train using program backlogs, Kanban systems, and delivery dashboards.
- Identify, track, and facilitate resolution of program risks, cross-team dependencies, impediments, and delivery bottlenecks.
- Support release planning, release readiness, feature execution, and coordination with Product, Architecture, Engineering, Risk, and Operations.
- Promote realistic planning, capacity-based commitments, predictable execution, and timely escalation of issues.
Key Responsibilities
Metrics, Governance and Continuous Improvement
- Define and monitor flow, predictability, quality, delivery, and Agile maturity measures.
- Maintain dashboards and regular program reporting to provide fact-based visibility to teams and leadership.
- Facilitate retrospectives, problem-solving workshops, and improvement planning at team and program levels.
- Improve delivery practices, tooling discipline, backlog quality, and strategy-to-execution traceability.
Stakeholder and Change Management
- Build alignment among Business Owners, Product Management, Architects, Technology Leaders, delivery teams, and governance partners.
- Communicate delivery health, risks, dependencies, decisions, and improvement priorities clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Facilitate conflict resolution and decision-making across teams while maintaining focus on business value and customer outcomes.
- Support adoption of new practices through structured communications, training, workshops, and hands-on coaching.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 12+ years of experience in technology, product development, program delivery, or transformation environments.
- 2+ years of experience in Agile Coaching, Release Train Engineering, Program Management, Senior Scrum Master, or a comparable role.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating PI Planning and coordinating delivery across multiple Agile teams.
- Strong working knowledge of SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean principles, and scaled Agile delivery practices.
- Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, impediments, and stakeholder expectations in complex delivery environments.
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, communication, conflict resolution, and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster, or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).
- Experience leading enterprise Agile transformations, value stream enablement, or Agile maturity improvement programs.
- Knowledge of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Value Stream Management, Lean Portfolio Management, and product operating models
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
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Skills
KanbanAgileasset servicingProgram deliveryAsset ManagementAgile CoachingChange ManagementAgile DeliveryBankingPortfolio ManagementArchitectureoperationsBusiness OperationsProduct ManagementProduct Development
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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust
Financial Services
5.6k+
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137 years old
Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
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