Duke Energy Corporation

Lead Agilist

Duke Energy Corporation$100K — $130K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or related degree; equivalent work experience considered
  • Minimum 6 years of relevant experience
  • High School/GED plus 8 years related work experience accepted if degree not held
  • At least one certification in Agile (CSM, PSM, etc.) required
  • Strong coaching and facilitation skills, with emotional and situational intelligence demonstrated

Responsibilities

  • Teach and coach teams on Agile value delivery concepts
  • Collaborate with other coaches to promote best practices
  • Empower teams in their Agile mindset and transition
  • Lead workshops for product and development teams
  • Advise teams on product and portfolio strategies
  • Participate actively in communities of practice
  • Contribute and deliver training content regarding Agile practices

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid working conditions post-onboarding
  • Engagement in leadership roles within communities of practice
  • Opportunities to mentor peers and colleagues
  • Focus on cultural growth and influencing communication
  • Possibility to develop and contribute to innovative learning content
Full Job Description
Important Application Submission Information
In order to ensure your application is successfully received before the job posting expires, please submit your application by 11:59 PM on Monday, July 27, 2026

Job Summary

The Lead Agilist will have broad experience leading (Scrum Master or Agile Lead) and coaching teams and portfolios using multiple Agile ways of working and frameworks. Primary responsibilities include teaching & coaching new concepts and value delivery disciplines to teams and colleagues. The Lead Agilist is capable of leading teams, but also coaching teams and individuals on Agile mindset, systems thinking, and consulting on different ways of working. The person in this role has an active leadership role in communities of practice, coaching mid-level leaders, and is viewed as an expert in many aspects of the Agile toolset.

Responsibilities

Delivering Agility
  • Teach and coach new concepts and disciplines for value delivery
    Working closely with other coaches/Agility consultants to implement programs to promote best practices across the organization
    Teaches team to manage and resolve impediments to value delivery
    Enables the transition to Agile by empowering teams to develop an Agile mindset
    Train Teams to enable transition to an Agile way of working.
    Setting up governing policies to support Agile-based approaches.
    Facilitating change in new ways of working.
    Applying System thinking to expose bottlenecks.
    Evaluating and advising on Agile Frameworks.
    Proven track record of success in agile product delivery, knowledge of best practices and the ability to provide leadership oversight and planning of development activities
    Key agent for driving the maturity of Agile across teams/organizations


Coaching Agility
  • Coach and mentor other scrum masters, technology and business leaders, and POs to improve both their own and others' knowledge and skills.
    Coach Agile mindset to mid-level leaders
    Mentor peers and POs to improve both their own and others' knowledge and skills.
    Lead agile workshops for product and development teams, as well as key stakeholders


Consult & Advise
  • Advise and coach Product professionals to develop product and portfolio strategies.
    Lead teams through product and portfolio strategies such as value streaming and roadmapping exercises
    Organize and align products/services into a portfolio or workflow.
    Coach product mindset to mid-level leaders


Cultural Growth & Influence
  • Foster collaboration and communication within the program/portfolio
    Challenge the status quo
    Participates in other communities (i.e. product, change, design thinking)
    Takes a leadership role in Community of Practice (CoP)/Center of Excellence (CoE)
    Mentors peers


Agile Training
  • Contribute to learning content
    Deliver learning content


Basic/Required Qualifications
  • Bachelors degree Other Related Degree
  • Minimum 6 years related work experience
  • In lieu of Bachelors degree(s) AND 6 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 8 year(s) related work experience


Desired Qualifications
  • Previous Duke Energy experience
  • Excellent written, verbal, and electronic communication skills.
  • Demonstrated servant-leadership in nontraditional ways (coaching, volunteer work leadership, etc.)
  • Interacts effectively with others at all levels of the organization; makes persuasive and informative presentations.


Working Conditions
  • Hybrid Mobility Classification - Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable daily commute to a Duke Energy facility.


Specific Requirements
  • At least 1 of the following certifications: CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, KMP, ICP-ATF, SA, SASM, DASM, PMP


Demonstrates:
  • Expertise in multiple Agile frameworks.
  • Passion for helping to unlock the potential of individuals and teams
  • Strong coaching skills
  • Strong facilitation skills - can mobilize others
  • Openness, approachability, collaborative nature, and enjoyment working with passionate people
  • A learner mindset - naturally curious to learn more
  • Ability to consult with teams on the Agile discipline that works for them
  • Experience with value-driven prioritization techniques.
  • Agile values and principles.
  • Passionately proactive at problem-solving
  • Ability to meet an individual or team where they are and help them succeed
  • Professional judgment on when to ask for help.
  • Ability to take on multiple efforts of varying complexity (commensurate with experience).


Intangibles:
  • Leadership presence
  • Actively practices emotional and situational intelligence
  • Provides space for and encourages team to self-organize.
  • Willingness to be vunerable


Travel Requirements
Not required

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)
No

Represented/Union Position
No

Visa Sponsored Position
No. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

About Duke Energy Corporation

Duke Energy is one of the largest energy holding companies in the United States. Its Electric Utilities and Infrastructure business unit serves approximately 7.5 million customers located in six states in the Southeast and Midwest.

Duke Energy Corporation Careers

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27,605 employees
Market Cap
$79 billion
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Net Income
$1.3 billion
5 Year Trend
+2%
Revenue
$23.8 billion
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