Agile Coach

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Project Execution - Agile Coach for an opportunity in Houston, TX/Jersey City, NJ!

Position Title: Project Execution - Agile Coach

Location: Houston, TX/Jersey City, NJ

Anticipated Start Date: Tentative Start Date

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration:6 months contract to hire.

Job Type: TEMP TO HIRE, [ON-SITE]

Pay Range:[$60] – [$65]

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Project Execution - Agile Coach

Houston, TX

6 months CTH

Key responsibilities

· Acts as a catalyst of positive change, inspiring and motivating individuals to embrace an agile mindset.

· Mentors, coaches and supports individuals, teams and the organization across mindset, culture, practices and structure towards organizational adaptability and delivery effectiveness.

· Facilitates highly effective events and sessions for the teams and organization as needed, such as reviews, retrospectives, workshops and training.

· Continually builds their knowledge and grows the knowledge of the teams and organization with the latest advancements in agility.

· Partners with agile thought leadership across the organization to solve problems and increase adoption and understanding.

· Supports and enables effective approaches for de-scaling and scaling agility ensuring transparency and reduction of handoffs and dependencies across teams of teams.

· Supports the removal of impediments to increasing agility and effectiveness for the team and the organization.

· Cultivates the health and the effectiveness of teams through qualitative and quantitative measures along key dimensions of culture, practices, mindset and structure, while ensuring appropriate usage of the measures by the teams and the organization.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

· Expert in agile and lean practices and approaches

· Scrum Master and Team Coaching certifications: PSM 2/3, A-CSM, CSP-SM, ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, ICE-AC.

· Solid understanding of de-scaling and scaling approaches for agility, such as Team Topologies, Nexus, LeSS, Scrum of Scrums, Scrum at Scale, SAFe.

· Ability to collaborate and influence people at various levels.

· Deep understanding of the core skills of facilitating, coaching, mentoring, training and leading in an agile lean context.

· Several years of software development experience such as leadership, engineering, or testing.

· Several years of Scrum Master and agile team coaching experience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

· Tools: Jira, Jira Align, Lucidspark, Confluence; or similar.

· Financial Services or regulatory industry experience