Enterprise Agile Coach

Job Description

Agile coach helps organization, teams, and individuals in building Agile mindset using Agile principles and practices through coaching, facilitation, mentoring and change managements skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Coaching and mentoring agile teams
2. Agile Maturity assessment and enabling team to continuously improve
3. Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices
4. Value stream identification, value stream analysis and value stream mapping,
5. Mapping OKRs/ Organization goals to Execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels
6. Facilitating ART Launch
7. Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement
8. Working with Leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management group
9. Conduct Big room trainings, brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment etc.
10. Define revised org structure based on Agile
11. Stakeholder management, influencing and running project governance, change management and benefits realization
12. Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members
13. Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools.
14. Lead the development of a culture where development team and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices
15. Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.
16. Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams
17. Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream
18. Actively scans the external environment to stay abreast of, and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts and capabilities
19. Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization

Required Skills:

1. Overall 10-15 years of total experience including significant experience being a Scrum Master and 4-6 years in Agile Coaching
2. Full time MBA / Engineering / equivalent
3. Software development experience is preferred
4. One or more of certifications such as SAFe, LeSS, CSP, PSM-II, CEC, SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF is a plus
5. Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
6. Coaching skills at different levels of the Organizations (Portfolio, ART and Teams) and Leadership
7. Should be aware and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training and coaching tools, and models and knows when to apply them
8. Should have experience in implementing one or more Scaling Agile frameworks.
9. Effectively able to drive learning culture through workshops, meetings, and gamification techniques
10. Has a deep understanding of communication, group dynamics and organizational culture
11. Should have formal and/or informal education about coaching and strong mentor relationships
12. Experience in product backlog management tools is highly desirable
13. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
14. Experience in Client Facing role
15. Experience in Automotive/ Auto-ancillary industry is preferred

Other Requirements:

1. Base location should be Bangalore or candidate should be willing to relocate to Bangalore
2. Willingness and ability to take initiatives and learn independently
3. Willingness to travel to client office as required