Agile Coach

At Pearster we are looking for Agile Coaches for a prominent Canadian client.

Wonder why you should work with us?

Here some of our benefits!

✔ Long-term and stable international projects

✔ Salary in USD (contractor)

✔ 100% remote

✔ International certifications, trainings

✔ Coworking spaces, birthday gifts, team building activities and much more!

The Agile Coach is responsible for being a change agent leading all levels of the organization through an Agile transformation at scale by training, coaching, facilitating and mentoring. The Agile Coach will train teams to resolve impediments and shift mindset and behaviors. Act as a role model by demonstrating the right mindset including a test and learn attitude, a bias for action, a passion to innovate and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities:

• Help stand up new agile teams and provide coaching and consulting to these teams to support their development and ongoing improvement to become self-organizing, self-managing and highly functional. This includes supporting the development of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team members.

• Provide coaching, training, mentoring, impediment management, and leadership to facilitate collaboration, development consistency, and value delivery across multiple teams and departments. • Create a safe environment for healthy conflict and meaningful collaboration and provide the team with a platform for continuous improvements and raising blockers early.

• Proactively analyze and make recommendations for improvements to existing agile organizational practices and patterns at the team level.

• Promotes the Agile culture and mindset throughout the organization including leading teams and influencing leaders and partners as they learn and adopt Agile practices by supporting them through coaching, mentoring, facilitating and teaching.

• Implement and monitor metrics to gauge teams efficiency, and effectiveness, by improving their capacity to identify and resolve causes of delay and building a sustainable model.

• Develop and support coaching plans for Agile teams.

Requirements:

• Agile Coaching certification, Certified Scrum Master or designation preferred.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, technical diploma, or other applicable software development work experience.

• Equivalent work experience may be considered a substitution.

Must Have

• 5 years of coaching experience in Agile delivery/transformation/training/coaching and is a discipline expert in agile practices.

• Experience as an agile practitioner in an agile transformation environment with teams that are new to agile methodology.

• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and the flexibility to adapt your experience to new and evolving environments. • Must have a mindset of a test and learn attitude, a bias for action, a passion to innovate and a willingness to learn.

• Strong organizational change management orientation.

• Proficient with Virtual Meeting Tools (Teams).

• Proficient with JIRA, Confluence and Microsoft Office (i.e., MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

• Fluent in English (reading, writing, and verbal). Bilingualism is an asset.