What You'll DoAvalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer, manager, and leader to actively leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.Avalara's Agile PMO team is looking for an experienced Sr. Agile Coach to join our Engineering TeamsAs an Agile Coach, you will support the Technology group to ensure program teams follow the Agile Process and bring organizational structure, Agile disciplines, and daily operational management to the teams. You will also be partnered with multiple Agile teams on ensuring a smooth delivery of their release efforts. You will promote Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams, collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the Transformation Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization. You will be reporting to Sr Director, Technical Program Manager.
Responsibilities
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Work with leaders in Prod Security, Architecture and Reliability Engineering to improve the flow of their goals to rest of Engineering Dev teams.
- Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Technical Program Teams
- Understand Team goals and partner with TPMs in Lean Portfolio Management Road mapping, within Teams and across multiple dependent teams
- As a hands-on Agile Coach for 10+ teams in the Program, improve proper framework adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process
- Coach Scrum Leads to help build both next-generation products and maintain the current product line
- Ensure partner management
- Partner with TPM to facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Teams
- Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and agree on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results, and deliverables.
- Identify opportunities where AI can reduce waste, simplify workflows, and optimize team performance according to Agile principles
- Familiarity with integrating AI within Jira, Confluence, or other Agile tools
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
Experience
- 8+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with technical projects
- 5+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management
- 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework and Experience in Agile transformation
- Technical Understanding of SaaS Product development
- Excellent relationship management
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Miro AI) to enhance team agility, improve SDLC practices, and improve.
- Can coach teams and leaders on responsible, AI adoption in Agile ways of working (e.g., for retrospectives, backlog grooming, documentation, or decision-making support)
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- SAFe Certification
Must Have
- Understand spirit of Agile, Portfolio Management and DevOps practices
- Understand finer nuances of Scrum & Kanban.
- Understand large-scale project management.
- Understand release planning, coordination, and management
- Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment
- Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and advanced filters
- Drove large-scale Agile framework adoption in medium-large program
This is a remote position.How We’ll Take Care Of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & WellnessBenefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversityAvalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
What You Need To Know About Avalara
We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer
Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
