Lead Agilist
Cincinnati, OH
Type: Contract
Category: Product Management
Industry: Financial Services
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -102026-109227
Date Posted: 10/27/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/ZztWQa
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Description:
On-site in Cincinnati, OH
Our client seeks a Lead Agilist to coach one or more Agile Squads. The role ensures teams understand and apply Agile and Scrum values and principles, facilitates Scrum events, and promotes continuous improvement. The Lead Agilist serves as a servant leader, fosters a trusting environment, mentors team members and Product Owners, and helps remove impediments to keep teams focused on delivering business value and a positive customer experience.
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:
- Ensure Agile Squads understand and apply Agile and Scrum values and principles.
- Facilitate Scrum events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement.
- Coach Product Owners and Development Teams on effective Product Backlog management and shared understanding of outcomes.
- Promote self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, and software craftsmanship.
- Use observation and data to identify squad needs, risks, dependencies, and impediments, and remove or escalate impediments as needed.
- Foster a trusting environment where issues can be raised without fear and resolved collaboratively.
- Facilitate neutral discussions that keep teams focused on delivering business value.
- Mentor and grow team members through teaching, coaching, and powerful questions.
- Encourage empirical decision-making using metrics, feedback loops, and information radiators.
- Collaborate across squads and with the Agile Center to improve team effectiveness.
- Shield squads from external interference and balance requests to maintain productivity.
- Model servant leadership and continuous learning.
Experience Requirements:
- 5+ years of full-time business experience.
- 3+ years of Scrum experience.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Experience presenting, teaching, mentoring, and facilitating at multiple organizational levels.
- Experience removing impediments outside of the team.
- Coaching skills with ability to convey complex messages and teach new concepts.
- Ability to resolve interpersonal and organizational conflicts.
- Demonstrated servant leadership and team-first collaboration.
- Understanding of Scrum Framework and principles of agility.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle disciplines, including Project Management, Requirements, Analysis and Design, QA and Testing, Implementation, Deployment, and Change Management.
- Working knowledge of practices that support agility, such as CI/CD, TDD, and automated testing.
- Familiarity with other Agile frameworks and practices, including Kanban, Scrumban, XP, and mob programming.
- Ability to apply multiple approaches to remove impediments and escalate when needed.
- Ability to set and align priorities and goals in an agile environment.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor's in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field, or equivalent work experience.
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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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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
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