Agile Practice Lead

Role is remote but must be willing to work 8:30am - 5pm Eastern time.

BAYADA is seeking an Agile Practice Lead to establish, standardize, and continuously improve agile ways of working across the IT organization. This is a practice leadership role—not a project manager, Scrum Master, or Jira Administrator position. The Agile Practice Lead will define enterprise agile standards, drive adoption across IT domains, and ensure work is consistently structured, tracked, and reported in Jira.

What You’ll Do

• Assess current agile practices across IT and identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Design and implement an enterprise sprint framework, including sprint structure, ceremonies, backlog standards, definitions of done, and escalation practices.
• Develop and maintain BAYADA’s Agile Practice Playbook and Jira standards, including workflows, board structures, templates, naming conventions, and reporting requirements.
• Partner with the Jira Administrator to ensure Jira reflects established process and governance standards.
• Lead agile adoption across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, data/analytics, digital products, and enterprise platforms.
• Coach IT leaders and teams on agile practices, including backlog management, sprint planning, capacity planning, retrospectives, and impediment management.
• Establish and facilitate an Agile Community of Practice and develop internal agile champions across IT.
• Monitor agile maturity, identify adoption challenges, and recommend improvements to IT leadership.
• Connect team-level agile execution with portfolio reporting, governance, investment tracking, and delivery risk management.
• Serve as BAYADA’s internal subject matter expert and authority on agile methodology and best practices.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of agile delivery experience, including 4+ years in an enterprise agile coaching, practice leadership, or transformation role.
• Experience implementing agile frameworks across multiple teams and work types, including software, infrastructure, operations, and shared services.
• Strong Jira expertise, particularly in workflows, boards, project structures, templates, and reporting requirements.
• Experience driving organizational change and adoption in environments with inconsistent or developing agile practices.
• Experience in a regulated industry; healthcare or financial services experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent coaching, facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to effectively engage individual contributors through IT directors and CIO-level leadership.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to create clear playbooks, standards, and executive materials.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), or comparable certification.
• Experience transitioning PMO or governance functions toward agile portfolio management.
• Experience in home health, post-acute care, or other distributed care delivery environments.

The ideal candidate is a strategic agile leader who can establish consistent enterprise standards while helping teams successfully adopt and sustain them.

As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state/local mandates.

BAYADA is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability. Learn more about our 50th anniversary celebration and how you can join in here.

BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers. All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.  Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.