Business Transformation Consultant - Agile SME, Coach, & Trainer

Introduction

This Job can be Performed from anywhere in the US

Your role and responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive Agile training through virtual classroom sessions and remote coaching for cohorts of Scrum teams
• Model Agile principles and correct anti-patterns during team interactions.
• Support Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, Retrospectives).
• Collaborate with the clients' Agile Transformation Office (ATO) to align training with organizational goals.
• Provide feedback, progress reports, and recommendations for continuous improvement to client in support of contract deliverables
• Ensure quality assurance of training content and coaching delivery.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and frameworks (e.g. Kanban, Scrum framework, SAFe)
• Strong foundation in servant leadership skills including problem solving, conflict leadership, and growing teams and individuals.
• Proven experience mentoring and coaching teams with diverse roles (product owners, scrum master, developers, program/company leadership)
• Instructional experience: creating, implementing, and delivering Agile course content
• Strong facilitation and communications kills; ability to facilitate critical conversations and resolve team conflicts.
• Proven experience with Agile tools including issue tracking tools such as Jira, CICD tools such as Jenkins/GitLab CI, and build automation.
• 5 or more years of experience as an Agile coach or similar role
• Demonstrated experience modeling the Agile mindset, building a culture of continuous improvement
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience in enterprise Agile transformations and working with Agile Transformation offices.
• Familiarity with workshops (e.g. Kaizen, Value Stream mapping), and organizational change management.
• Advanced certifications (e.g. ICAgile, SAFe Program Consultant, Advanced Scrum Master, PMP Agile Certified Practitioner)
• Background in the full software development lifecycle including DevSecOps integration and scaling agile practices.
• Ability to design, implement, and monitor transformation agile metrics and dashboards to help teams optimize processes and make improvements.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Client-provided location(s): Phoenix, AZ

Job ID: IBM-76763

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-02T18:49:25