Find the right Agile Coaches in Austria in minutes from over 15.000 CVs with the power of AI.
Support for Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and team coaching, plus help with agile operating models, retrospectives and leadership alignment. Get fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.
About the role
What they do
An Agile Coach helps teams and leaders work with agile methods in a practical way. The focus is not theory. It is better flow, clearer roles, cleaner ceremonies and stronger delivery habits.
Typical work includes:
- Coaching Scrum teams, product teams and leadership groups
- Improving stand-ups, planning, reviews and retrospectives
- Supporting agile transformations and team restructures
- Resolving blockers between business, product and delivery
- Building working agreements, feedback loops and clear ownership
Core skills
A strong Agile Coach reads the room fast and adjusts the approach to the team. They can coach a single team, guide multiple teams or work with managers who need help changing how they lead.
Key skills include:
- Deep knowledge of Scrum, Kanban and agile facilitation
- Conflict handling and stakeholder coaching
- Clear workshop design and strong moderation
- Change management in complex organisations
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence or similar tools
Common specialisms
Many companies look for a Scrum Coach, a scaled agile coach or a lean coach when they need a very specific setup. Others need help with SAFe, portfolio alignment, or product discovery in fast-moving environments.
In Austria, this role is often brought in for software teams, industrial companies, scale-ups and larger firms that want better cross-functional work. German-speaking workshops are common, but remote coaching in English is often enough for international teams.
When to bring one in
Freelance support makes sense when change is urgent, internal capacity is limited, or a team is stuck in old habits. It also works well when a company wants an outside view before hiring permanently.
- Teams follow agile ceremonies but still miss delivery goals
- Managers want support moving from control to coaching
- Several teams need one common way of working
- A transformation needs short, focused intervention
- A fresh outside perspective is needed without a long hiring process
What strong coaches deliver
Good Agile Coaches leave behind habits, not slide decks. They make teams more self-managing, help leaders remove obstacles, and create working agreements that survive once the assignment ends.
Look for clear examples of outcomes such as better team flow, fewer coordination issues, sharper backlog work and more useful retrospectives. Strong candidates speak plainly, challenge respectfully and adapt their style to the people in front of them.
Tools and setup
Most assignments involve a mix of workshops, one-to-ones, team sessions and leadership meetings. The toolset is usually simple, but the way it is used matters.
Common tools and methods:
- Jira, Confluence, Miro or Mural
- Facilitation for retrospectives, refinement and planning
- Team health checks and coaching canvases
- Metrics used carefully, such as flow or cycle indicators
- Shadowing, observation and feedback loops
Meet FRATCH Agile Coaches
Marko Agrez
Agile Transformation Coach | Program Lead | Scaling Engineering Organizations
Last position:
Program Lead | Agile Transformation Coach at EnBW
- Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning approach at program level inspired by the SAFe framework.
- Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value delivery for internal and external customers.
- Design and expansion of efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and key stakeholders across the organization.
- Facilitation and professional moderation of cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
- Coaching managers, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
- Removal of structural blockers at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
- Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
- Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their effectiveness in the transformation program.
- Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
- Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, prioritization by business value, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
- Introduction, governance, and scaling of Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization in usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.
Achievements:
- Clear increase in the visibility, transparency, and perceived value delivery of the development teams within the overall organization.
- Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
- Optimization of work processes, workflows, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.
Hannes Kasch
Head of Development
Last position:
Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Electronic Legal Communication / Agile Coach at Bundesrechenzentrum GmbH (Bundesministerium für Justiz)
- Backlog Management
- Scrum Master
- PO for the Ministry of Justice
- Optimizing Agile Processes
- Classic Business Analysis, User Stories and Testing
- Operational Topics like Nagios Monitoring and Incident Handling
Tools:
- Jira / Confluence
- SQL Developer
- Elastic / Kibana
- Visual Studio Code
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
Thomas Becker
Programme Manager, Turnaround Projects
Last position:
Agile Coach, Scrum-Master at ÖBB (Infra)
- Challenge: poor project results and team performance, very poor work environment
- Solution: introduction of agile planning processes, teaching agile principles within the SAFe framework
- Innovation: consistent use of agile methods; introduction of requirements engineering, story writing
- Leadership: interface with the board, program management Opel Europe, GM USA and international markets
- Result: most productive team in the ART; increased planning accuracy to over 85%
- Team size: 10
Volkmar Travnicek
UX Manager - Project Manager - Business Analyst – Requirements Engineer – SAFe Consultant
Last position:
Consultant | Business Analyst – Requirements Engineer – Agile Coach - Designer at ÖBB BCC
- Redesign of system error messages for Jira & Confluence
- Evaluation and implementation of new system extensions
- Analysis and design of new business processes with UX expertise
- Support for the implementation of SAFe
Manuel Merzinger
Software Developer | Agile Coach | Digitalization Expert
Last position:
Azure Training
- Prepared and delivered a five-day seminar via Microsoft Teams
- Key topics: building, running, and managing Docker containers; Kubernetes cluster basics and Kubernetes networking basics; Terraform basics and best practices for Terraform environments in Azure
Oliver Perner
Enterprise Agile Coach, Flight Levels Coach, Product Manager, Innovation Consultant
Last position:
Enterprise Agile Consultant, Coach & Trainer, Product Manager at building BRIDGES – Enterprise Agility
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
Peter Schleinzer
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer / Scrum Master / Agile Coach
Last position:
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer / Scrum Master / Agile Coach at OODA Consulting e.U.
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Agile Coaches statistics
Typical experience
18 years
Average project duration
2.7 years
Certifications per freelancer
7
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Bachelor's degree or higher
83%
Master's degree or higher
83%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this role 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 Agile Coaches & 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
Have questions? See our quick guide to FRATCH
An Agile Coach helps teams and leaders improve how they plan, collaborate and deliver. The work usually includes facilitation, coaching, conflict handling and support for agile ways of working. In practice, the coach removes friction and helps people use Scrum, Kanban or a hybrid setup more effectively.
A freelance Agile Coach makes sense when you need support for a specific change, a struggling team or a short transformation window. It is also a good choice when the role is needed before you know the final long-term shape of the organisation. Companies often use freelance support to get an outside view without waiting through a full hiring process.
Not exactly. A Scrum Coach or Scrum Master usually focuses on one team and on running the Scrum framework well. An Agile Coach works broader, often across several teams, managers and delivery setups, and helps shape the system around the team.
Look for a mix of facilitation, coaching, change work and solid agile practice. A strong Agile Coach can run workshops, handle resistance, ask sharp questions and adapt to different levels of maturity. Experience with tools like Jira and Confluence helps, but the real value is in how the person works with people.
Most Agile Coaches work with Scrum, Kanban, lean practices and sometimes scaled frameworks such as SAFe. The right approach depends on the organisation, the team structure and the type of delivery problem. Good coaches do not force one framework everywhere; they choose what fits the context.
Both can work. An Agile Coach can do a lot remotely through workshops, leadership sessions and team coaching, especially if the organisation already works with distributed teams. On-site time is useful when trust is low, the change is sensitive or the coach needs to observe real team dynamics in Austria.
Judge the person by the clarity of their thinking and the quality of the changes they create. A strong Agile Coach can explain what they changed, why they chose that approach and how the team will keep the improvement going. Ask for concrete examples from team coaching, retrospectives, leadership work and transformation support.
Deliverables often include workshop designs, coaching plans, team working agreements, transformation roadmaps and clear feedback from observations. A good Agile Coach also leaves the team with practical routines they can keep using. The best output is usually improved behaviour and fewer coordination problems, not a long document.
Request a Free Demo
Get in touch with the FRATCH team and we will get back to you within 4 hours.
Would you rather directly get in touch?
We always have the time for a call or email!
Philipp Thomaschewski
FRATCH CEO
