Position: Program Agile Coach
Duration: 3 month contract to Hire
Location: Deerfield, IL 60015 is 100% remote for now but will eventually be onsite 4 days/week in Deerfield, IL
I am looking Program Agile Coach with SAFe or SPC5 Certification, and 5 years of experience in large enterprise environments within the Banking and Financial services industry. Must have has transformation experience, mentoring team agile coaches, advising managers and developing / enhancing the Agile maturity levels of the teams.
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Agile Software Development
Mentorship
Coaching And Mentoring
Conflict Management
Training
Duration: 3 month contract to Hire
Location: Deerfield, IL 60015 is 100% remote for now but will eventually be onsite 4 days/week in Deerfield, IL
I am looking Program Agile Coach with SAFe or SPC5 Certification, and 5 years of experience in large enterprise environments within the Banking and Financial services industry. Must have has transformation experience, mentoring team agile coaches, advising managers and developing / enhancing the Agile maturity levels of the teams.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Program Agile Coach is responsible for mentoring team agile coaches, advising managers and developing/enhancing agile maturity levels of teams.
- Program Agile Coach is also responsible for training agile teams and leaders on agile principles & processes.
- The Program Agile Coach will be Subject Matter Expert (SME) on agile and scaled agile development methods and processes as well as an experienced IT leader.
- Work with IT and Business senior leaders to define strategies for transitioning to Lean/Agile practices
- Act as a trusted advisor to organizations when guiding them through their Lean/Agile transformations
- Lead workshops & training sessions to educate individuals on Agile Values, Principles, and Practices
- Mentor and pair with change agents within client organizations on becoming true Lean/Agile champions
- Coach and mentors Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, Product Managers, Product Owners, Team Coaches and other key agile roles on influencing organizational change
- Coach teams & leaders on the mindset change required to transform their existing development practices to follow agile methodologies
- Help teams to adopt and improve agile methods and practices
- Apply lean thinking to team specific issues to bring a holistic approach to maturing a team
- Ability to collaborate effectively with the teams and individuals that they are coaching/training to build trust
- Assist Scrum & Kanban teams to improve delivery performance through coaching and mentoring on team roles, tools, processes and ceremonies
- Leverage the metrics to monitor/enhance teams performance and agile maturity level
- Drive the required cultural transformation in adopting the new way of working i.e agile development methodologies
- Participate and contribute actively to continuous evolve processes to align to enterprise agile transformation strategy
- Aid in the establishment of agile teams, programs and value streams and initial coaching to a variety of key stakeholders
- Coaches Senior Managers in Agile & Lean practices. Enable them to be effective Agile Champions
- Serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Agile development methods and processes
- Lead Community of Practices / workshops based on roles or specific topics
- Assess the agile maturity of existing teams and coaches to higher levels of maturity
- Expert in visualizing flow of work, controlling Work in Progress (WIP), managing queue sizes and batch optimization of work
- Former experience as Scrum Master or Product Owner, master of Servant Leadership
- Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to require standards and processes
- Bachelor's degree
- 5 years of relevant Lean / Agile experience
- Demonstrable expertise in influencing organizational change
- Hands on experience scaling Lean/Agile practices
- Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) or Scaled Agilist (SA) Certification
- Highly proficient in Agile practices and able to clearly coach teams and programs at varying maturity levels
- Profound understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum & Kanban & Scaled Agile principles and practices
- Experience in agile methods such as DevOps, Agile testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Agile development, XP practices and Agile architecture
- Experience in creating/enhancing training materials and deliver training
- Share knowledge at different levels, be hands-on with the team as required
- Excellent planning, conceptual, consulting skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills and the ability to interact with senior business areas, IT management staff and business partner
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent problem solving and influencing skills
- Skills in translating broad strategic intent into tactical plans and directions
- Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills
ss # 89064
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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