Agile Coach

Job Description: The candidate for the position of Agile Coach will be responsible for coaching and mentoring all aspects of our agile implementation including, but not limited to, agile teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and executives. The Agile Coach will emphasize agile principles, XP practices and frameworks to enable teams to deliver high value business capabilities. The coach candidate should embrace servant leadership and display behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being agile. The Agile Coach will serve as a subject matter expert on Agile execution frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc) as well development methods needed for teams to deliver software in iterations. The candidate must possess software development technical experience and the ability to train, mentor and coach on all agile engineering practices (with an emphasis on XP & TDD). The Agile Coach must also be able to collaborate with key agile resources to develop changes to the agile application development practices used by various areas and in IT & Shared Services with the focus on improving delivery for our various business areas.

Main Responsibility areas:

Coach, Facilitate, mentor and train Scrum and Kanban teams Conduct feasibility studies on a comprehensive test plans, driving the automation strategy. Coach and mentor individuals and teams to discover and implement improved ways of collaborating and developing into high-performing, self-organizing, agile teams. Coach and mentor product planning practices such as road mapping, prioritization techniques, backlog management, story mapping, journey mapping, story writing and estimation. Develop and deliver training, mentoring, and coaching around agile engineering practices and techniques such as XP, TDD, ATDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, collective code ownership, pair/mob programming and DevOps Professional software development behavior (pair programming, continuous integration, clean code, and refactoring) Proactively identify bottlenecks, impediments and issues and guide agile teams to quickly remove areas of inefficiency and waste. Coach and mentor on collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting work in progress, agile mindset, and framework practices in teams. Assess team and organization maturity and coach same to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and appropriate for the team and organization. Facilitates discussion, decision making and conflict resolution as it arises and proactively guide the team. Facilitates learning in a trusting environment Frequently interact with a diverse group of executives, release managers, technology, and business sponsors. Candidates should have a technical understanding of the tools used to perform the infrastructure provisioning and application deployments needed to support an Agile approach. They should be able to convey to the business areas how these tools can be used to help decrease the time it takes to deliver business solutions.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Experience: 7+ Years

Key skills / Other skills

5+ years of experience coaching agile frameworks (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc) 5+ years of application development experience in varying technologies Hands-on training, mentoring and coaching experience with agile engineering practices and techniques such as XP, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Automated Testing Experience working with all levels of an organization on an enterprise Agile Transformation program. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with team members, support personnel and clients. Ability to collaborate with other coaches and teams in order to build agile delivery capabilities. Knowledge and use of industry accepted Software Development methodology.

• Dice Id: 10106293
• Position Id: 8318732