Agile Coach

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.