Agile Coach (Toronto)

Agile Coach (Toronto)

13 Aug
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Delpath
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Toronto

13 Aug

Delpath

Toronto

Start Date: Sept 14th 2026

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Physical Office Location Address (even if role is remote/hybrid): Downtown Toronto

Remote or Office: 3 days in office and two days remote ( Office days: Monday, Tues and Thu)

Schedule Hours: 37.5/ week and 9-5pm

Possibility of Overtime: Depending on project needs

Possibility of Extension: Depending on project needs

Possibility of FTE: Depending on Project needs

Number of Positions: 1

Reason for Opening: New initiative lunch project

Role Responsibilities / Typical Day in Role:

Structure and plan future workstreams

- Break down the long-term EMOB vision into manageable workstreams, MVPs, and releases.
- Develop a best practice within the squad to define sequencing, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps across teams.

Backlog management and prioritization

- Direct the organization, grooming and refinement of backlog.
- Create a robust prioritization practice based on business value, client impact, effort, risk, and feasibility.
- Develop artifact standards to ensure work is clearly defined and composed of essential information.

Risk identification and dependency management

- Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and cross-functional dependencies that may impact delivery
- Establish processes for issue identification, escalation, and resolution.
- Assess and create visibility into critical path items and decision points.

Coaching and ways of working

- Assess processes across functional areas in the squad to identify opportunities to increase agility
- Create standard practices and support the alignment across business, technology, analytics, marketing, and CX partners.
- Support the Squad Lead in driving execution, decision-making, and stakeholder engagement.

Embedded execution support

- Operate as a hands-on member of the squad, participating in day-to-day planning, ceremonies, working sessions, and decision forums.
- Provide seasoned guidance and challenge operational,



strategic and executional assumptions to help the team move faster and more effectively.

Performance Measurement:
- Quarterly performance reviews and ongoing feedback.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
- 7 years of Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, or related experience.
- 6-7 years of Proven experience coaching agile teams while providing hands-on support for planning, prioritization, dependency management, and delivery execution.
- Demonstrated ability to identify risks, remove bottlenecks, and improve team effectiveness.
- Experience developing and managing delivery roadmaps, defining MVPs, and coordinating cross-functional dependencies to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills across business and technology teams.

Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Experience delivering complex transformation, digital, or customer journey initiatives.
- Product delivery and product management experience is an asset.
- Banking or financial services experience is considered an asset.
- Experience working with Agile delivery frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other enterprise Agile methodologies
- Experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Workfront or similar platforms.

Best VS. Average Candidate:
- 50 percent hands-on delivery experience and 50 percent experience in agile coaching and consulting.
- Expert in risk management, bottleneck removal, stakeholder alignment, and facilitating decision-making across business, technology, analytics, marketing, and CX teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading customer journey transformation or digital transformation initiatives, breaking down complex strategic visions into MVPs, releases, and executable workstreams.

Interview Process: 1st Round: Yvonne + Peer, flexible (Virtual or in person) , 60 min, behavior questions

2nd Round: Yvonne + VP , adaptable (Virtual or in person), 30 mins, Behavior questions, capability experience and cultural fit.

Red Flags / Disqualifiers

- no hands-on experience with delivery experience.
- only a Agile coaching and consulting experience.

📌 Agile Coach (Toronto)
🏢 Delpath
📍 Toronto

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