Agile Coach

About the job

We are seeking an experienced Agile Coach in Hyderabad to join our Global Agile CoE. As an Agile Coach, you will play a crucial role in driving agile transformation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within our organization.

• Coach and mentor teams in adopting agile principles and behaviors
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, continuous delivery and outcome-driven decision-making
• Guide sustainable cadence in product development
• Bring agility into product discovery and hypothesis validation thinking
• Learning from data and take decision from it
• Support collaboration between cross-functional product teams (PO, Full-Stack Developers, Data Professionals, UX/UI) & business stakeholders
• Identify and Remove impediments for continuous flow and improvement.
• Drive organizational change and support teams to embrace a product mindset through their agile transformation journey.
• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members
• Promote agile values, principles, and mindset across the organization
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align agile practices in service of achieving business objectives.
• Document emergent operating model principles that aid in successful product discovery and hypothesis validation.
• Develop best practices and templates for contracting with vendors providing Agile delivery services.
• Contribute to setup and ongoing improvement of Agile CoEs training packages, service offerings and practices.
• Provide advice process and structural changes at the organization level
• Suggest organizations policies to support Agile ways of working

• Proven success in coaching Product Owners and teams to scale products across multiple countries and stakeholders
• Track-record of success as an Agile Coach in complex environments
• Experience in working in domain knowledge relevant to the data science projects (e.g. knowledge of industry regulations, data privacy considerations, domain-specific metrics, and business processes)
• Proven participation in successful, global agile transformation.

Technical Skills

• Solid knowledge of Lean & Agile practices, UX/UI and Application Design & Integration
• Understand the technology stack and be able to guide the team on best practices for tool selection, integration, and usage
• Demonstrated understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks relevant to highly regulated industries.
• Strong facilitation, teaching, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Experience with organization design and operating model considerations.
• Change management expertise

Soft skills

• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, backlog management, and release planning for achieving significant outcomes
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and leadership skills for effective coaching and team influence
• Be comfortable promoting a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement within the team.