Agile Coach

Job Description

Role & responsibilities Coaching and mentoring agile teams Agile Maturity assessment and enabling team to continuously improve Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices Value stream identification, value stream analysis and value stream mapping, Mapping OKRs/ Organization goals to Execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels Facilitating ART Launch Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement Working with Leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management group Conduct Big room trainings, brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment etc. Define revised org structure based on Agile Stakeholder management, influencing and running project governance, change management and benefits realization Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools. Lead the development of a culture where development team and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment. Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream Actively scans the external environment to stay abreast of, and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts and capabilities Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization Preferred candidate profile Overall 10-15 years of total experience including significant experience being a Scrum Master and 4-6 years in Agile Coaching Full time MBA / Engineering / equivalent Software development experience is preferred One or more of certifications such as SAFe, LeSS, CSP, PSM-II, CEC, SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF is a plus Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.) Coaching skills at different levels of the Organizations (Portfolio, ART and Teams) and Leadership Should be aware and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training and coaching tools, and models and knows when to apply them Should have experience in implementing one or more Scaling Agile frameworks. Perks and benefits 5 days working Hybrid model