Agile Coach

Duration: 6 months to start

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.
• Assess maturity of teams and provide right level of coaching to Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters at a sustainable pace.
• Be a part of the Agile Center for Enablement and help roll out best practices like Agile metrics.
• Monitor effectiveness of the transformation journey and drive continuous improvement to the client's product management, Agile framework, and practices.
• Provide guidance on how product teams will measure outcomes and value realization.
• Coordinate and facilitate agile related community of practice activities to enable local thought leadership and collaboration and to drive shared learnings across the enterprise.
• Provide coaching to leaders associated with product teams to enable agile culture.
• Build agile coaching capability throughout the enterprise and mentor agile coaches.
• Develop agile training materials and process guidelines.
• Deliver hands-on training in classroom and in virtual setting using collaboration tools (like Mural, Miro, or others) in support of enterprise-wide initiatives for internal agile development paths.
• Provide guidance to support migration from project centric organization to product centric organization.

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