Job responsibilities
- Lead and coach teams to adopt and implement agile methodologies, and promote open communication and engagement among team members ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals
- Use advanced communication, facilitation, and presentation skills to manage and influence stakeholders while communicating organizational impediments to leadership
- Develop and implement short to mid-term operational and transformation plans, prioritize tasks and manage resources to achieve product goals in a timely and efficient manner through the utilization of metrics and evidence-based decisions
- Identify trends and generate original ideas to contribute to the development of new policies and best practices within the discipline
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project management
- Experience in a strategic Agile Coaching role for at least five years that was diligently applying Agile principles, practices, and theory.
- Deep Lean/Agile skills including one or more of the agile roles, ScrumMaster, Product Owner, or Agile Team Member,
- Excellent skills in Facilitation, Training, Mentoring and Professional Coaching
- Strong experience in at least 1 agile coaching domain and knowledge of the others
- Understanding of major agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum @ Scale) and 3 or more years’ experience in at least 1 framework
- Strong social and emotional intelligence.
- Good skills and knowledge of lean, servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques (example: scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps, story mapping, example mapping, transformation plans, operating models, scaled agile frameworks).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge of professional coaching approaches such as ORSC, Co-Active, etc
- Agile Coaching Certification (ICE-AC, CEC, CTC) or Professional Coaching Certification (ICF-ACC, ICF-PCC or ICF-MCC)