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SAFe Agilist professionals help teams work across multiple Agile Release Trains, align business and delivery, and support Lean portfolio thinking. They are useful when an organisation needs stronger cross-team coordination, clearer priorities, and a practical way to scale agile ways of working. Get fast, precise matching with vetted freelancers who hold the SAFe Agilist certification.
About the certification
What it validates
SAFe Agilist, often called SA, is the best-known entry certification for the Scaled Agile Framework. It shows that a person understands how to apply agile thinking at enterprise level, not only inside one team. For companies, it signals a freelancer who can help connect strategy, execution, and coordination across teams.
Core skills
- Lean-Agile principles and the purpose behind SAFe
- Building alignment between business goals and delivery teams
- Working with Agile Release Trains and Program Increment planning
- Supporting flow, feedback, and continuous improvement
- Understanding roles, cadence, and dependencies in scaled delivery
Typical holders
A SAFe Agilist is often an agile coach, Scrum Master, product leader, delivery manager, or transformation consultant. In Austria, this profile is especially relevant in larger companies, regulated sectors, and organisations with distributed teams that need a shared way of working. It also fits freelancers who guide teams through change without forcing a one-size-fits-all process.
Where it matters
This certification matters most in projects where many teams must deliver one product, platform, or business change together. It is useful in software development, digital transformation, and portfolio-level planning. A company engaging a SAFe Agilist can expect someone who is comfortable in workshops, planning events, and leadership discussions, not just day-to-day team facilitation.
What it says to employers
The SAFe Agilist certification does not prove seniority by itself. It does show that the freelancer speaks the language of SAFe, understands how work moves through a scaled environment, and can help reduce friction between teams. That makes it a practical signal when you need someone to support adoption, improve coordination, or bring structure to an existing agile setup.
For freelancers
People looking for SAFe Agilist certification may search for the SA acronym or the full SAFe Agilist name. To stand out, the profile should show real experience with planning, stakeholder alignment, and delivery in complex environments. The certification is strongest when backed by hands-on work in transformation, coaching, or product delivery.
Meet FRATCH SAFe Agilist (SA)
Stavros Vougioukas
Project & Change Management Lead
Last position:
Transformation & Change Lead (Freelance) at Sanofi
- Led the global transformation of Talent Operations by inhousing recruitment technologies, processes, and teams, reducing over 20 external partners to 2, defining the strategy to hire hundreds of internal talent specialists, and redesigning organisational structures and processes worldwide.
- Drove gap analyses and impact assessments and led the global rollout of Beamery, HireVue, and Paradox, covering solution design, pilot markets, global deployment, and hypercare, ensuring smooth market transitions and standardised operations.
- Developed and maintained detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, RAID logs, and governance routines, leveraging SharePoint as the central platform for programme documentation, rollout artefacts, approvals, and decision tracking.
- Coordinated cross-functional stakeholders including HR, IT, regional teams, and external vendors, using SharePoint-based documentation and governance frameworks to align requirements, manage dependencies, and resolve delivery issues.
- Conducted gap analyses and impact assessments across Paradox, Beamery, and Workday to ensure pilot readiness and global launch success, with outputs captured and governed through SharePoint.
- Built and executed comprehensive change management plans using ADKAR methodology, covering stakeholder mapping, communications, training, and adoption activities, supported by SharePoint-hosted enablement materials and rollout documentation.
- Broke down silos across regions and functions to drive adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.
- Tracked adoption metrics and user feedback post-deployment, driving continuous improvement in user experience and operational performance.
Kelly Geyer
Change Manager
Last position:
Chief Adaptability Officer (Interim or Freelance) at Self-employed
Building the practice that treats adaptive capability as a strategic asset, not a consulting engagement. Working with C-suite leaders at European and global organizations to build the internal capability to evolve continuously – faster, with less dependency on outside help.
- Delivering the Adaptive Capability Diagnostic: a structured engagement that scores organizations across 6 dimensions and produces a clear roadmap for building transformation capability.
- Advising executives on transformation portfolio management: which initiatives to run simultaneously, how to sequence them, and how to build the governance to sustain all of it.
- Speaking at industry events including executive roundtables, conferences, webinars, and podcasts on building organizational adaptability at scale.
Stephan Jansen
Interim Transformation Manager
Last position:
Interim Project Management Office Advisor at Noske-Kaeser Equans
Project management and process harmonization between the French parent company (Equans Group, Axima Marine) and the German production company (Noske Kaeser) for maritime cooling and air conditioning systems.
Jerry Bousardo
Owner
Last position:
Owner at DIGIPM Consulting e.U.
From 02/2023 to 05/2024: IT interim manager within an international construction chemicals group headquartered in Germany as Global TSA Manager in a carve-out project responsible for the IT workstream.
From 06/2024: IT consulting in project management and IT service management areas, providing PM/PMO coaching and support.
Tomas Jiskra
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery
Last position:
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery at BRZ - Federal Computing Center (Federal Ministry of Finance)
- Deputy project manager for one of the largest projects in the Customs Union Code program, CEIS CDA for the Federal Ministry of Finance
- Budget planning and control
- Negotiations and ongoing communication with all relevant stakeholders
- Risk identification and assessment, and development of risk mitigation strategies
- Creation and implementation of action strategies to achieve project goals
- Efficient resource planning and allocation to support project requirements
- Managing the release process using agile methods and coordinating sprints for analysis, development, and testing phases
- Process optimizations and regular reporting for progress monitoring and decision making
Michael Polivanov
Delivery Lead | IT-Implementation & Strategic Requirements Engineering
Last position:
Strategy Consultant & Program Architect at Hypo Tirol Bank AG
- Portfolio Analysis & Migration Roadmap: Conducted structured analysis and risk classification of the HCL Notes infrastructure, created a prioritized migration portfolio with effort estimates as a key decision basis for management.
- Target Architecture & Modernization Concept: Developed the architecture strategy for retiring legacy applications, defined requirements for a centralized business process engine to reduce OPEX and licensing costs in the long term.
- Program Governance & Setup: Established roadmap and backlog structures as well as central project documentation (MS SharePoint), set up stakeholder management for the Notes decommissioning program.
Reinhard Kraus
Agile Coach | Managing Consultant
Last position:
Self-employed
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, Scaled Agile Inc.
- ICP – Agile Project and Delivery Management, ICAgile
- Management consultant and agile coach for agile organizations
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SAFe Agilist (SA) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
3.8 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
80%
Certifications per freelancer
9
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Daily Rate Distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers holding this certification are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Average rates for SAFe Agilist (SA) & Seniority distribution
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
Curious about FRATCH? Find the answers you need
The SAFe Agilist (SA) certification shows that a professional understands the Scaled Agile Framework and how to use Lean-Agile ideas in a larger organisation. It is about coordination, alignment, and delivery across multiple teams, not just basic agile terminology. For employers, it signals someone who can work in scaled environments with shared planning and clear priorities.
SAFe Agilist is broader than a team-level Scrum certificate. Scrum training focuses on one team and its events, while SAFe Agilist covers how several teams, leaders, and business functions work together in a scaled setup. If a company needs cross-team alignment, this certification is usually more relevant than a pure Scrum credential.
SAFe Agilist (SA) fits freelancers who coach teams, support agile transformation, or work in product and delivery roles across several teams. It is especially useful for Scrum Masters, agile coaches, product managers, release train roles, and transformation consultants. Companies look for it when they need someone who can connect strategy and execution.
A SAFe Agilist is most useful in large or complex projects where many teams must deliver together. That includes platform programmes, digital transformation, enterprise software work, and portfolio planning efforts. It matters when dependencies, priorities, and leadership alignment are as important as team delivery.
Before taking SAFe Agilist, it helps to have hands-on experience in agile teams, product work, or change initiatives. The certification is easier to understand when the person already knows basic Scrum or Kanban concepts and has seen cross-team delivery in practice. It is designed to make sense of scaled work, not to teach agile from zero.
The SAFe Agilist exam is usually associated with attending the official training course from Scaled Agile. That course gives the context needed to understand the framework and prepare for the certification. In practice, it works best for professionals who already have some exposure to agile delivery or transformation work.
Like other Scaled Agile credentials, SAFe Agilist is maintained through the organisation’s renewal process. Holders should keep their knowledge current as the framework evolves and continue using it in real work. Employers mainly want to see that the professional stays active and up to date with SAFe practices.
Yes, SAFe Agilist (SA) can be relevant for companies in Austria that run large agile programmes or work with international teams. It is especially useful where English is the common working language and where teams need a shared framework across locations. For local and remote projects alike, it helps show that the freelancer can support scaled collaboration.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with SAFe Agilist (SA) in Austria is 118 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 943 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with SAFe Agilist (SA) in Austria, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 80% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers with SAFe Agilist (SA) in Austria have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with SAFe Agilist (SA) in Austria are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (43%).
The most common industries among freelancers with SAFe Agilist (SA) in Austria are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (71%), and Professional Services (71%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with SAFe Agilist (SA) in Austria are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Operations (86%).
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