Agile Coach

Contract Duration: 09 months

Location: Sydney

Hybrid (2 -3 days in a week from office)

Job Title: Team Agile Coach #128867

Responsibilities:

• Empowerment: Empower teams to be successful, ensuring they are engaged, innovative, productive, and deliver high quality.
• Coaching: Provide coaching to teams with a strong focus on Agile practices.
• Agile Methodologies: Evaluate Agile methodologies and implement agility in the project delivery processes using SAFe and Scrum.
• Predictability: Improve delivery predictability across teams.
• Facilitation: Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Support: Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and lead by example.
• Impediments: Remove impediments or guide the team to remove them.
• Productivity: Introduce new ideas to improve productivity.
• Product Owner Support: Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Requirements:

• Experience: Proven track record in a Scrum Master role, ideally within an IT/SAAS environment. Knowledge of the financial services or banking environment would be ideal.
• Technical Background: Previous experience in a technical role such as QA or Development with a solid understanding of technical requirements.
• Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master, or equivalent certifications.

Skills:

• Agile Practices: Strong focus on Agile practices and methodologies.
• SAFe and Scrum: Proficiency in SAFe and Scrum methodologies.
• Coaching and Leadership: Ability to coach teams, lead by example, and provide servant leadership.
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to empower teams to get things done.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, comfortable working one-on-one, with a team, and with senior managers.
• Facilitation: Skilled in facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Productivity Improvement: Ability to introduce new ideas to improve productivity.
• Support: Ability to support and educate the Product Owner.