Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring for a contract Agile Coach. This is an onsite role in Toronto.

This individual will be leading Agile implementation and transformation. Shaping strategic product designs to managing and transforming agile teams. Our consultants engage on some of the most challenging business problems facing our clients. These projects can range from rapid process re-inventions at leading financial institutions to big data analytics at large scale retail organizations. In each situation, our Agile Experts are typically at the center of the problem solving, advising our most senior clients on how to successful execute on their strategic vision using a world class agile approach.

You will be well versed in the product, process and technology aspects of the agile approach and be a practitioner in all aspects of the scrum process in agile, which includes planning poker, running daily stand-up, conducting sprint reviews and facilitating retrospectives. You will also manage development of storyboards, wire frames, product backlog, user stories and acceptance criteria. Additionally, you will leverage your experience to guide senior client IT leaders on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Experience/Skills:

• Experience leading agile projects as an Agile Coach, as both a team member and coach in the agile product owner and/or scrum master roles.
• Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology.
• Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test driven development, continuous integration).
• Proficient with drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating/‘grooming’ product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria.
• Experience with running and teaching agile in a workshop or classroom setting (preferred). Relentless prioritization and alignment with business and IT stakeholders to ensure highest value capture.
• Excellent Project Manager that can plan 2-3 steps ahead of the team and surface hidden risks 2-3 levels deep within the team.
• Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously pivot to arrive at the highest impact answer for the client. Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effectively and not get overwhelmed by client pressures on team.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on transforming towards agile.
• Excellent leadership skills and enjoys teaching/mentoring others. Ability to move between strategic discussions with senior client leaders to tackle on the ground agile coaching with teams.
• Subject matter expert in required skill set with ability to apply concepts & lead others.
• Able to plan, lead, & organize complex deliverables that provide options for an organization to make decisions against.
• For emerging skill sets, years of experience may matter less than depth of knowledge & expertise but traditionally may have 10 or more years of experience