Agile Coach
About The Position
Siemens is seeking an Agile Coach for its Electrical Products Digital Transformation team, based in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, with a hybrid work model. Reporting to the Head of Digital Transformation, this role supports knowledge work teams across Electrical Products North America in adopting Scaled Agile, applying Atlassian best practices, and building lasting agile capability. The Agile Coach uses SAFe knowledge and Atlassian platform experience to help teams plan, prioritize, execute, and continuously improve their work. The position involves tailoring agile practices for software and non-software teams, administering and standardizing Atlassian platforms, coaching and training teams and leaders, improving portfolio and backlog management, coordinating dependencies, and tracking adoption and delivery outcomes. Travel of up to 10% is required. The role is full-time and permanent, with a hybrid work arrangement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Manufacturing, Engineering, or a related field.
- Advanced SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) certification.
- At least 5 years of experience in discrete manufacturing industry agile coaching, Scrum Master, or agile delivery roles supporting business teams.
- At least 5 years of experience applying SAFe and Lean-Agile practices in a matrixed enterprise environment involving software and non-software teams.
- At least 5 years of experience setting up and running planning cadences, backlogs, metrics, and reporting.
- At least 5 years of experience delivering training and contributing to agile champion networks or communities of practice.
- At least 5 years of experience as an Atlassian stack power user, with working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and related collaboration tools, including workflow configuration, dashboards, reporting, and user support.
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States on a continual and permanent basis without company sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience working within Siemens.
- Experience supporting organizational change and adoption of new ways of working across teams.
- Facilitation, problem-solving, and communication skills, including with various stakeholders.
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification.
- Advanced Jira, Jira Service Management, or Confluence certifications.
- Citizen development or AI power-user experience with tools such as Tableau, MS Copilot Premium, or Power Automate.
Responsibilities
- Assess team maturity and tailor SAFe and Lean-Agile practices, including team and program cadences, backlog refinement, prioritization, reviews, retrospectives, and PI Planning or equivalent events.
- Serve as a power user and business administrator for Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management; define project and portfolio structures, workflows, issue types, intake, dashboards, documentation, and integrations.
- Curate Atlassian training content, manage the demand pipeline with the Siemens IT Atlassian service, and coordinate related migrations.
- Support Product Owners, Scrum Masters, team members, and leaders in adopting agile practices; deliver practical training and develop agile champions and communities of practice.
- Help teams establish prioritized backlogs with clear outcomes, owners, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and milestones aligned to portfolio priorities.
- Facilitate alignment across functions and with IT on shared priorities, capacity, and delivery timelines; identify and resolve cross-team, cross-functional, and business–IT dependencies.
- Translate agile concepts into practical, repeatable patterns for software and non-software teams.
- Track flow and outcome metrics, maintain transparency of risks, issues, and decisions, and report adoption progress and value.
Benefits
- Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits; benefit details are provided through the linked benefits site.
- Target incentive of 5% of base salary.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
