Lead Agilist
Cincinnati, OH
Category: Product Management
Industry: Financial Services
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -112026-109277
Date Posted: 11/01/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/hq1N5O
Description:
On-site in Cincinnati, OH
Our client seeks a Lead Agilist to support one or more Agile Squads. The Lead Agilist will coach teams on Scrum values and principles, facilitate Scrum events, and foster a trusting environment focused on delivering business value. The role requires strong facilitation, coaching, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to mentor Product Owners and Development Teams on backlog management, self-organization, and continuous improvement. The Lead Agilist will promote growth for every team member, model servant leadership, and leverage data, metrics, and feedback loops to drive inspect-and-adapt practices. The role also involves coordination across teams, risk identification, and guidance on DevOps-oriented practices to help squads improve effectiveness and outcomes.
We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. 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: $70.00 to $80.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Coach Agile Squads on Scrum values, principles, and effective use of the Scrum Framework.
- Facilitate Scrum events and ensure value from Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement.
- Mentor Product Owners and Development Teams on backlog management and shared understanding of goals and success criteria.
- Promote self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, and software craftsmanship.
- Use observations and data to identify squad needs and intervene appropriately.
- Foster a trusting and safe environment for open problem solving and collaboration.
- Remove and escalate impediments, including cultural and logistical barriers and cross-team dependencies.
- Encourage empirical data collection, feedback loops, and metrics to drive inspect-and-adapt.
- Coordinate across teams and coach the broader organization on Agile practices and impacts.
- Guide teams on DevOps-oriented practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and pipeline automation.
- Model servant leadership and behaviors aligned with agility and team-first success.
- Identify, assess, manage, and report risks while supporting a positive customer experience.
Experience Requirements:
- 5+ years of full-time business experience.
- 3+ years of Scrum experience.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and teaching skills.
- Ability to communicate complex messages with clear written and verbal communication.
- Experience removing impediments outside the team and resolving conflicts as a mediator.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle disciplines, including requirements, analysis and design, QA and testing, deployment, and change management.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, TDD, ATDD, and related Agile engineering practices.
- Familiarity with additional Agile frameworks and practices such as Kanban, Scrumban, XP, and Mob programming.
- Ability to build high-performing teams using inspect-and-adapt loops and empirical data.
- Demonstrated collaboration with focus on team outcomes and continuous learning.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor's in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
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.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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