Agile Coach

Role: Agile Coach

Mississauga, ON(onsite)

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)