Agile Coach

The Agile Coach drives the Agile Maturity of the organization by inspiring a culture that is built on Agile Principles, tools & techniques; including but not limited to Scrum/Kanban. As a true Servant Leader, mentor and coach, they maximize performance of squads/teams & tribes by sharing their expert knowledge in all things Agile. Lead Scrum Master interfaces with leadership across Group IT & business to ensure consistent and efficient delivery of value-based products and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach the tribe on excellence of Agile ceremonies and Practices
• Lead the tribe to create culture based on continuous improvement
• Coach the Product owner in improving user story refining, backlog refining and sprint planning techniques
• Drive transparency and governance on the progress of agile maturity to the business owners and stakeholders
• Provide coaching and workshops as needed (ex. Simulations on Empirical Planning, excellent user stories examples)
• Servant leader Mindset
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities while working with cross-functional distributed teams
• Helping the teams to adapt with the changes for example changing from waterfall to Agile
• Conduct the community of practice
• Responsible for improving Agile Maturity across the tribe
• Familiar of Application Lifecyle Management tools such as Jira, confluence
• Establish Effective governance & Efficient communication across the tribe
• To guide on structure and cadence that would enable value-based delivery
• Help to plan the journey and define the roadmap for Agile Maturity
• Cooperate with the tribe leadership to gain a detailed visibility across the quarterly roadmap (Through running Quarterly Plannings)
• Establish strong relationships with stakeholders / product owners to understand strategic, tactical and operational challenges in Business units, define technology solutions to address and arrive solutions
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on transforming towards agile
• Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously ‘pivot’ to arrive at the highest impact answer for the client

Key Requirements:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree (with technical aspects such as coding/programming and project management as part of course syllabus)
• UAE Nationals with 4+ years of experience being a Scrum Master or an Engineer in an Agile Organization.
• Conceptual Thinking, Strategic Orientation, Team Leadership, Analytical Thinking, Innovation, Flexibility, Integrity