Agile Coach

Title: Agile Coach - (Azure cloud, Product management)

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Months Contract (Possibility of extension)

Timings: Seeking candidates who are willing to work India core business hours, but available 1-2 hours during the US time zone to overlap the US team/meeting handoffs, etc. as needed.

Key Accountabilities:

• Be a part of the Agile Center of Enablement and help build the deep, institutional capability required to become a truly Agile organization.

• Determine how to scale agile beyond the individual team or departmental level and use the right scaling model to drive adoption.

• Partner with leaders for the identification of organizational and development value streams/product or platform teams and for the designing of their organization structure using various team topologies and Product/Platform Taxonomy.

• Drive OKR (Objectives and Key Results) workshops with the Business stakeholders, Product Management Team, IT Leadership, and the Agile Delivery Teams.

• Directly influence leadership (up to executive levels) and their teams throughout DTS (infrastructure, applications teams, business partners, Strategy/Innovation/Architecture, Cyber Security and Assurance) and business to drive adoption of Product and Agile thinking.

• Hands-on coaching on the floor to key product roles – Product Manager, Product Owner and Scrum Master and Scrum teams including but not limited to practices such as demand gathering, prioritization, product roadmaps, defining epics/features, authoring user stories, acceptance criteria, user acceptance testing, release planning, sprint planning, measuring agile metrics, and drive continuous improvement of team performance.

• Facilitate and coach Agile Release Train/Product/Program level events such as PI Planning/Quarterly Planning, Steerco, Quarterly Product Review, System Demo, Scrum of Scrums, Solution Demo, etc. for Release Train/Cross-Product/Cross-team setup.

Required Qualifications and Experiences:

• B.A., B.S./M.S. or B.E/B.Tech. (Advanced degree preferred) in a relevant field.

• 12+ years of Professional experience with a minimum of 10 years of Information Technology experience.

• 7-10 years of experience in the following areas:

• Working in an Agile Software Delivery Environment Experience with Agile Teams, Scrum Teams, Kanban teams, Agile Release Trains, and Product Teams

• Working with organization focused on digital transformation.

• Ideal Candidate will have 4+ years of experience in the following:

• Experience of full product life cycle management of a digital product from idea to launch and maintenance.

• Experience developing and deploying global methodologies in a large organization.

• Experience driving execution via performance measurement, benchmarking.

• Expert problem-solving ability and experience leading groups through problem solving methodology.

• +4 years of Agile Coaching experience at team, product/program/release train and executive level

• +2 years of Product Owner/Scrum Master experience

• Must Have Certifications: SPC (SAFe Practice Consultant) And (CSM/PSM or CSPO/PSPO)

• Excellent training skills in classroom and in virtual setting using collaboration tools like Miro, or others.

• Experience with Agile Life Cycle Management Tool (AzureDevops) is a must.

• Experience coaching agile teams that are dispersed globally.

• Experience coaching leadership on agile mindset to enable agile culture.

• Strong Virtual meeting facilitation, interpersonal communication, training, negotiation, and presentation skills

• Experience designing and implementing scrum of scrums or any other agile scaling framework for global products with regional delivery.

• Expert problem-solving ability and experience leading groups through problem solving methodology.

• Prior accountabilities that required influencing leaders outside of administrative authority, Strong leadership skills with emphasis on communications and partner management

• Ethical and data driven decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with organization migrating from project centric to product centric.

• +2 years Product Management experience

• IT application services delivery experience; Scrum-Master Certification; Product Owner Certification

• Experience in both developing and implementing new methodologies.

• Experience with DevOps and Platform development.

• Nice to have Certifications: ICP-ACC, Certified Digital Product Manager