SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
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Sarah R.
Last position:
Transformation Consultant for Xebia at Xebia Netherlands B.V.
- Drive enterprise-wide transformation through leadership coaching and a clear vision that stimulates and guides organizational change
- Guide organisations in developing agile strategies, optimising workflows, and embedding best practices
- Foster stakeholders' buy-in through effective communication, ensuring collaborative engagement throughout the transformation and change management process
- Support post-acquisition integration, aligning processes and ways of working between the acquired company and Xebia
- Guide clients in adopting digital and AI innovations to streamline operations and enable smarter decision-making
- Empower teams with tools and techniques to foster continuous improvement, adaptability, and sustainable growth
Philipp H.
Last position:
Managing Director at Vishnu Artists GmbH
- Managing Director of Vishnu Artists GmbH in Berlin (since 01/2025, together with Benedikt Irsch).
- Responsible for the company's finance, planning and reporting; working with DATEV.
- Reporting with Power BI as well as planning and analysis models in Excel as a basis for management decisions.
- Selection, development and implementation of AI-supported tools in the company, including Flow Compass.
- Co-host of the Vishnu AI Freelancer Meetup, which takes place every four weeks on Miro; exchange about the practical use of AI applications in coaching and facilitation.
Markus M.
Last position:
Project Manager: Engineering Excellence at EnBW Energie Baden-WĂĽrttemberg
- Evaluation and further development of Engineering Excellence initiatives as part of the “Digital First” program
- Validation of efficiency, productivity, and cost-saving potential in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Organization-wide analysis of the use of Generative AI in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Evaluation of optimization measures in the areas of product management, delivery, developer experience, metrics, and quality assurance
- Alignment of the “Next Level Architecture (NLA)” target vision with regard to organizational design, governance model, and scalability
- Identification of structural bottlenecks in the delivery organization and development of alternative optimization approaches
- Preparation of decision-making and management documents for department management and the Executive Board to evaluate efficiency potential and transformation measures
Skillset: Engineering Excellence, Operating Model Design, Generative AI, AI in SDLC, SAFe, DevOps, Software Delivery Metrics, Value Streams, Team Topologies, Domain Driven Design, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Management Reporting, Business Case Assessment
Kurt H.
Last position:
Interim Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead at Boehringer Ingelheim (via Fusion Consulting)
- Senior agile practitioner in a complex, regulated pharmaceutical environment — facilitating Scrum ceremonies across three international teams (~40 people) while supporting delivery governance and agile coaching.
- Time-limited assignment to bridge the gap until the client could fill the role internally
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Review, Retrospective) across multiple international teams; kept sprints predictable and productive
- Coached teams and Product Owners in agile practices within a GxP-regulated environment, pragmatically balancing agile ways of working with QMS compliance requirements
- Tracked and visualized delivery metrics, managed dependencies, and produced status reports for senior stakeholders and Steering Committee
- Stepped up to project leadership of the internal CCMS product initiative: introduced structured processes and transparent tooling into a previously low-governance environment
- Actively contributed to the company-wide Agile Community of Practice, including authoring blog articles on agile topics
- Commended for analytical thinking, reliability under pressure, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
Folke V.
Last position:
Nameling – AI-supported product development
- Relaunched a self-developed semantic name recommendation product by combining semantic search, graph-based similarity analysis, LLM-/RAG-supported content, and AI-assisted development processes.
- End-to-end responsibility across the product lifecycle—from use case definition and solution design through prototyping and evaluation to the iterative development of the roadmap.
- Evaluated AI use cases in terms of user value, technical feasibility, data quality, governance, and operating costs to guide MVP scope, roadmap decisions, and continuous product improvement.
Thomas K.
Last position:
Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer (SAFe) – Product & Cross-functional Delivery Focus at Autonomous Driving / Connectivity (OEM, confidential)
- Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
- Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
- Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
- Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
- Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
- Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.
Matthias B.
Last position:
Member at Rotary – Passport Club Werderscher Markt
Kerstin S.
Last position:
Project management at IT service provider in the SAP area for energy companies
- Project management for the SAP release upgrade of a large multi-client environment (IT service provider in the SAP area for energy companies)
- Setting up a release process for future operational workflows
- Cutover planning
- Building a test management process with the involved clients
Falko W.
Last position:
Institute for Business and Personal Development, South Harz
- Development of an AI-supported personality analysis based on the institute's SDWA4: online survey, AI-supported and automated evaluation, and email delivery
- Requirements analysis, prototype development, evaluation, derivation of a simplified SDWA4-light analysis, continuous improvement, design, Make automation, deployment
Frank C.
Last position:
Agile and traditional Change Transformation Manager at Freelance Interim Manager | Transformation, Change & Procurement Consultant
- Industries: Energy, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
- Transformation & Change: Supported complex IT and digital transformation programs as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Change Manager and RTE Consultant at Siemens Energy (global SAFe implementation), E.ON (Sales Technology Platform), Schneider Electric (S/4HANA transformation DACH) and Vodafone (Operational Excellence)
- Agile roles: Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Business Analyst, RTE Consultant in cross-functional and scaled teams (SAFe, Scrum, Spotify model)
- Procurement Excellence: Strategic procurement consulting focused on cost optimization, supplier management, digitalization and organizational development, including building supplier scorecard models, AI-powered procurement approaches and procurement process automation
- Led and coordinated interdisciplinary project teams of up to 12 people in national and international settings
- Successfully launched several global ARTs at Siemens Energy, improving coordination across locations
- Increased change acceptance and established communication structures in the S/4HANA program at Schneider Electric
- Introduced agile methods, OKR frameworks and KPI dashboards at E.ON, increasing velocity and transparency
- Reduced procurement costs through strategic sourcing and supplier optimization
- Delivered process innovations in close collaboration with IT and business teams
Mario P.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
Benedikt I.
Last position:
AI Transformation Coach & Delivery Enablement Lead (Contract) at Digital GmbH
- Drive enterprise AI transformation through alignment of data platforms, AI capabilities, and governance
- Implement scalable Data Mesh architecture to decentralize data ownership and accelerate AI use case development
- Strengthen AI maturity via structural alignment, clarified decision rights, and transparency models
- Coach leaders, product teams, and engineers in AI-enabled decision-making and data-driven product thinking
- Establish governance models for trustworthy AI and measurable business value
- Design flow-based systems (Kanban / Flight Levels) to sustain AI enablement and ensure measurable business integration at scale
- Integrate KPI frameworks, Jira architectures, and BI reporting to enable evidence-based steering of AI initiatives
Ambartsum P.
Last position:
Program Lead – Performance & Quality Engineering at Accenture
- Led performance engineering strategy for MS Dynamics 365 retail transformation
- Coordinated 25+ engineers across multiple delivery streams
- Identified and resolved system bottlenecks, reducing critical performance issues by 40% pre-go-live
- Delivered executive performance dashboards enabling data-driven release decisions
Janko B.
Last position:
RTE, Agile Coach at Haufe Group SE
Transformation of the program organization from six subprojects into a scaled agile setup as RTE to stabilize the go-live date
Organizational development by building virtual, agile, cross-functional teams and establishing metrics and performance indicators
Coaching agile development and rollout principles for an SAP migration
Training internal staff for new roles and toughening up effort estimates towards the steering board
Switching to agile governance and reporting structures with a focus on end-to-end business processes
Establishing the product owner role and promoting agile principles in the SAP development team
Reduced delivery times through domain-based scoping and smaller cycle times
More reliable delivery forecasts and increased delivery rates
Earlier and more frequent feedback from business units, increased trust, and cost savings by eliminating duplicate structures
Claudius P.
Last position:
IT Consultant on Temporary Assignment at YER Talents GmbH
- Release Management
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Scrum
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SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Product Development, Information Technology
Bachelor's degree or higher
90%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
10
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 15 Nov 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts holding this certification in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates for SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany
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.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 15 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (90%)
- Professional Services (62%)
- Automotive (60%)
- Manufacturing (52%)
- Banking and Finance (40%)
- Energy (38%)
- Education (35%)
- Insurance (35%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the certification
What SPC means
The SAFe Program Consultant, often shortened to SPC, is the leading role for people who teach, launch, and improve the Scaled Agile Framework in real organizations. It signals that a professional can connect strategy, portfolio work, and team delivery in a way that fits large-scale product development.
What it validates
- Ability to lead SAFe adoption and explain the framework clearly
- Skills in coaching leaders, teams, and Release Train roles
- Practical knowledge of Agile Release Trains and Program Increment planning
- Experience supporting change across multiple teams and functions
- Understanding of Lean-Agile thinking, flow, and value delivery
Typical SPC profiles
Freelancers with this certification are often transformation coaches, release train engineers, agile consultants, or enterprise agile practitioners. They usually step into situations where many teams must align on one product or program goal, and where leadership needs help turning agile ideas into working operating models.
Knowledge behind the role
A strong SPC combines framework knowledge with facilitation and change leadership. That includes.
- portfolio and program alignment
- ART setup and launch support
- PI Planning preparation and facilitation
- coaching on roles, cadence, and metrics
- stakeholder alignment across business and technology
Why companies hire SPC freelancers
An SPC is useful when an organization wants more than a trainer. Companies look for someone who can diagnose current ways of working, guide a rollout, and help teams keep momentum after the first workshops. In Germany, this is especially relevant for larger enterprises with mixed on-site and remote teams, where clear facilitation and strong English or German communication both matter.
What it tells you
If a freelancer holds the SAFe Program Consultant certification, you can expect hands-on experience with scaled agile change, not just theory. For employers, it is a good sign that the person can work with executives, product people, and delivery teams in the same transformation. For freelancers, the SPC path also shows readiness to lead complex SAFe engagements, whether in Germany or in international programs.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) — answered in short.
The SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) shows that a professional can introduce and guide the Scaled Agile Framework in real organizations. It points to coaching skill, facilitation, and the ability to support large groups of people through change. For companies, it is a sign that the freelancer can do more than talk about agile methods.
SPC is the most transformation-focused role in the SAFe line. While many other SAFe certifications concentrate on team, product, or leadership practices, this one focuses on teaching SAFe, launching Agile Release Trains, and supporting adoption across the organization. That makes it more suitable for consultants and change leaders than for a single-team role.
The certification fits agile coaches, transformation leads, consultants, and experienced practitioners who help companies move to SAFe. It is also relevant for people who support large product groups, complex delivery setups, or enterprise-wide change. A freelancer with this background is usually expected to work with both business and technology stakeholders.
You will often see SPC skills used in SAFe rollouts, Agile Release Train launches, and Program Increment planning sessions. It also matters in broader transformation programs where several teams need one operating model and a shared cadence. Industries with large, regulated, or complex product environments often value this profile most.
Both can matter. In Germany, many large organizations use mixed-language environments, so a freelancer may need to facilitate in German, English, or both depending on the team. The certification itself is international, but local communication skills can make a big difference in workshops and leadership sessions.
A good candidate should already understand agile delivery, team coaching, and how larger organizations work. The path usually makes the most sense for people who have helped teams adopt agile practices and now want to operate at program or enterprise level. Strong facilitation and change skills are more important than classroom theory alone.
The SAFe Program Consultant credential is maintained through Scaled Agile’s ongoing certification model, which typically includes continuing education and related requirements. The important point is that it is not a one-time learning badge; holders are expected to stay current with the framework and its updates. Candidates should always check the latest rules with Scaled Agile.
Ask which parts of a transformation they have led, such as coaching, ART launches, PI Planning, or executive alignment. It also helps to ask how they handle resistance, remote collaboration, and follow-through after the first workshop. That gives a much clearer picture of whether the person can support your specific SAFe journey.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany is 117 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 937 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany, 90% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 67% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers with SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany are German (100%), English (100%), and French (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers with SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany are Information Technology (90%), Professional Services (62%), and Automotive (60%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) in Germany are Information Technology (96%), Project Management (96%), and Product Development (81%).
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