EY Business Consulting - Agile Coach Project Management Office 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

75290625

Key Responsibilities

• Coaching and Mentoring: Coach teams in Agile principles and practices, helping them to adopt and adapt Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean. Engage with team members to explore areas of improvement in Agile practices and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Scrum Master Responsibilities: Partner with Product Owners to prioritize work through the backlog and manage Scrum artifacts. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Performance Metrics: Define process metrics within the Scrum team to ensure seamless communication with stakeholders. Measure team progress using metrics like burn-down charts and track dependencies with other Scrum Teams for seamless delivery.
• Organizational Change: Work with senior leadership to embed Agile principles in day-to-day scenarios and collaborate with other leaders to drive organizational change.
• Identify Continuous Improvement Opportunities: Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement and share best practices. Navigate the organization to remove impediments impacting team progress.

General Responsibilities

• Agile Project Management: Manage multiple critical projects, requiring matrix management of activities across all functional areas. Drive project planning activities, including stakeholder identification, risk management, and regular status reporting.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate, influence, and negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables. Create and maintain project schedules, identifying resource estimates, timelines, milestones, and critical paths.

To Qualify for the Role You Must Have

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, MBA, MCA, or any other related Master's degree.
• Experience: 5-10 years of relevant Agile experience (Scrum Master, Agile Coach/Mentor) with at least 3-7 years of hands-on project management experience delivering technology solutions.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Mandatory Agile Certifications: Preferably SAFe Agile or Scrum.org (PSM I + PSM II) or Scrum Alliance (Certified Scrum Master).
• Project Management Certification: PMP is preferred but not mandatory.

Skills Desired:

• Substantial experience working as part of Agile teams.
• Ability to embed and foster Agile ways of working at the team level.
• Proactively upskill the team in Agile practices.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and share best practices.
• Communicate, influence, and negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Navigate the organization to remove impediments impacting team progress.
• Analyse and refine existing processes.
• Coach and mentor team members to drive continuous improvement.
• Deep understanding of agile software delivery and operational aspects.
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks (DevOps, etc.).
• Experience with JIRA/Azure DevOps or similar software.
• Understanding of technology-enabled business transformation and delivering enterprise-level IT projects.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills