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.

JOB 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.
• Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions.
• Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously ‘pivot’ to arrive at the highest impact answer for the client.

Education/Certifications

• Undergraduate Degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• Agile Methodology Certification
• Coaching Certification

Experiences

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Agile Methodology.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in the Banking & Financial domains.