Job Description

Agile Coach Opportunity

Client is seeking an experienced Agile Coach with robust technical exposure/support, servant leadership and problem-solving skills for an excellent opportunity within our Agile Center of Enablement (CoE). As an Agile Coach, you provide hands-on guidance, support, and coaching to Agile teams and individuals in all roles and functions to drive a smooth transition into Agile/Product mindset across the enterprise. You’ll bring to bear your experience advising teams, leading by example and challenging the status quo to promote an environment and culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation. Your excellent listening, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills will help the individuals you coach reach their highest potential and flourish in a collaborative Agile organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with the enterprise within the context of specific coaching engagements to support Agile/Product goals and KPI’s for identified products/portfolios/programs.
• Be a trusted advisor highly skilled at coaching, consulting, mentoring, influencing, and challenging teams, leaders, and associates at all levels of the organization on behavioral changes that will deliver continuous improvement and increased value.
• Change agent with a passion for coaching and supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward and Agile way of working.
• Assess agile health and maturity and use this to inform your coaching, mentoring and development approach.
• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching.
• Coach Senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down.
• Lead workshops & training sessions to educate individuals on Agile Values, Principles, and Practices.
• Promote an agile mindset to management and people outside the teams and team of teams, and champion the changes and belief re-sets required to affect the desired business results.
• Support development teams to adopt DevSecOps leading practices and mindset and lean architecture.
• Track record of resolving impediments that exist outside of the team environment.
• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams.
• Work with the CoP/teams to ensure the appropriate tools are being leveraged and enterprise practices are being followed to enable consistency and metrics where needed.

Qualifications

• Agile: You have no less than five years experience of robust knowledge and passion for Agile within an organization that has multiple teams and cross-dependencies.
• A Coach: 5+ years of coaching experience under your belt, you use a varied coaching approach to cultivate the capabilities, skills and knowledge of all Agile team members, including:
• Helping Scrum Masters identify and support opportunities to increase team maturity and productivity.
• Helping Product Owners ensure the vision, roadmap and personas are well-defined and understood so that the Delivery Team is producing the right product.
• Helping Delivery Teams continuously improve.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach working with teams (7-10 team members) to mentor in the use of Agile practices

• Experience in Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

• Robust understanding and ability to articulate the business value of specific Agile Practices

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