Role: Agile Coach

Location: Mississauga, ON (Hybrid)

Type : Contract

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide continuous guidance on agile practices, roles and responsibilities, tools, and techniques.

• Perform regular monitoring and suggest necessary course corrections when appropriate.

• Answer practical agile and tool questions to relieve blockers and to help team members put their agile training into action.

• Act as change agents, motivating and helping make change happen.

• Evangelize Agile methodologies across the organization by continually bringing the value of Agile to life.

• Serve on teams as an objective party to help navigate common roadblocks and pain points in the adoption process.

• Recommending the right approach to growth by bringing the right questions- providing good mental models- challenging people in their thinking.

• Flag issues/risks and other key actions that may need to interface with non-agile portions of the company.

• Ability to work with relevant engineering teams to ensure DevOps related activities occur as intended.

• Foster a continuous learning environment helping teams to inspect & adapt.

• Facilitate large group discussions.

• Coach senior leaders on Agile and scaled Agile concepts.

• Coach multiple teams at all stages of their agile journey.

• Actively engaging to help teams and executives with the most challenging aspects of agility.

• Perform business and technical agile assessments and guide: how to increase agility given the organization's context and constraints.

Minimum Qualifications

• Agile coach SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certified with experience in

• Helping organizations in agile transformation and SAFe implementation (at least 2 years of coaching experience)

• Performed role of Release Train Engineer (at least 2 years of RTE experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years of experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least five (5) years of experience in the following •

• Working for a health care organization

• Working for an IT organization

• Working on projects or programs requiring the integration of cross-functional technology and/or business solutions.

• Workflow analysis, including the use of modeling software (e.g., Visio).

• In a leadership role working with project or technical teams.

• Working on cross-functional project teams

• In a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)

• Agile coach SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certified with experience in helping organizations in agile transformation and SAFe

MUST have SPC and of Release Train Engineer (at least 2 years of RTE experience)