Overview Position Description Educate Colleagues The Agile Coach must educate employees at all levels, including senior, and at times clients, on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work. They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
Mentor Team
As a mentor, the Agile Coach is responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions. They provide hands-on support to all employees, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall company growth and improvement.
Develop Agile Adoption Strategy
The Agile Coach is responsible for designing a strategy for the organizational adoption of Agile. This includes every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.
Implement Agile Methodology
This task entails implementing Agile process, principles and practices across all levels and departments in an organization. The Agile Coach must use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. In order to do this, the Agile Coach must also embody the Agile principles and lead by example.
Position Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Senior Engineer will cover:
Coach agile teams in the methodology
Integrate related methodologies within the company
Develop standards and requirements for the agile process
Provide training to employees on the agile process
Help teams navigate agile tools and software
Encourage employee and stakeholder buy-in
People Management
The candidates must have demonstrated proficiency in working with global and local teams, managing vendors and/or 3rd parties.
The candidates will be able to work in a collaborative environment, organized in scrum, therefore scrum master experience or scrum working is a must.
Experience
3 to 5 years in development in big companies.
+3 years of agile coaching
Education/ Qualifications
Degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, IT or similar.
English proficiency required
Having programming experience
Background in relevant programming languages (Cobol or Java, etc…)
Demonstrating strong knowledge of and background with Agile concepts
Possessing prior experience coaching teams in Agile adoption or as a Scrum Master
Scrum Coach certification
Scrum Master certification
Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban and Lean
Interpersonal skills and patience
Leadership and communication skills
Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
