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Foot Locker · 2 days ago

Sr. Agile Coach

Irving, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$97K/yr - $135K/yr

5+ years exp

Foot Locker is a leading athletic footwear and apparel retailer, and they are seeking a Sr. Agile Coach to drive Agile maturity across their product portfolio organization. This strategic role involves mentoring teams and leaders on Agile practices, facilitating planning events, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

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Comp. & Benefits

Hiring Manager

Ryan DiPasquale, CSM, CSPO

Responsibilities

Mentor and coach leaders, product managers and product teams on Agile principles, mindset, frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and best practices

Define clear outcomes based on Agile maturity and continuous improvement roadmap for assigned teams

Facilitate organizational change management and communication to support Agile transformation and continuous improvement

Create and conduct training sessions to educate teams on implementation and practice of Agile values, principles, and practices

Leverage Jira AI capabilities to monitor and improve backlog health. Coach teams on interpreting AI-driven recommendations and integrating them into backlog refinement and planning practices

Utilize AI analytics to surface patterns from team data (e.g. retrospective notes, communication logs, meeting transcripts) to inform coaching strategies

Lead and facilitate Quarterly Planning events to align product vision, objectives and priorities across multiple teams and portfolios

Ensure transparency of commitments, risks and dependencies during planning cycles

Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to establish capacity models for predictable delivery

Support teams in balancing demand vs. capacity and optimizing balanced delivery commitments

Leverage AI-driven forecasting for capacity planning and dependency prediction across teams

Implement and maintain processes for identifying, tracking and resolving cross-team dependencies

Facilitate collaboration across teams and portfolios to mitigate delivery risk, in partnership with Program Management on larger initiatives

Promote DevOps culture and practices, including CI/CD, automated testing and release management

Partner with engineering teams to improve delivery pipelines and reduce lead time, in partnership with Platform Developer Experience team

Guide software development teams in applying Agile practices to modern engineering workflows, including microservices, cloud-native development, and API-first design

Educate teams on AI capabilities to enable software delivery lifecycle (SDLC)

Enable and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for Agile maturity, predictability and value delivery

Incorporate AI-driven metrics for backlog health, cycle time reduction and planning accuracy

Provide actionable insights to leadership for informed decision-making

Educate teams on AI capabilities, limitations and ethical considerations. Coach on prompt engineering and data fluency for effective collaboration with AI tools

Stay abreast of industry trends and new Agile tools and techniques to continually bring fresh perspectives into the organization, including the application of AI

Promote Agile experimentation with emerging technologies, including AI/ML, to drive innovation and business value

Qualification

Agile coachingDevOps practicesAgile frameworksAtlassian toolsAI tools in SDLCCommunication skillsStakeholder managementAgile certificationsFacilitation skills

Required

Minimum 5 years of experience in Agile coaching, with proven success in enterprise-scale transformations, DevOps Practices and product operating model

Deep knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS), DevOps and Lean principles

Experienced in facilitating large-scale planning and managing complex dependencies

Experienced user and/or administration of Atlassian tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)

Familiarity with AI tools in SDLC (e.g. JiraAI, AI-assisted testing, forecasting)

Strong understand of DevOps practices and modern software delivery pipelines

Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills

Certifications in Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or SAFe Certified Practitioner)