Agile Coach

job summary:

Position Summary

• Agile coach position to support existing and new agile teams across Enterprise Risk and Finance Technology.
• The Agile Coach is the person who is responsible for creating and improving these agile processes by:
• Working with project, program and portfolio teams to analyze current processes and provide guidance on adoption of agile best practices
• Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, finetuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met
• Lead agile workshops, assessments for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders
• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them
• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices
• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching
• Coach senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from topdown.
• Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization
• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams
• Experience in building and executing Agile transformation. Should have performed at least one end to end transformation.

Primary Skill: Agile Coach

Required Skills

• Product Lifecycle Management
• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
• Experience in sustaining and scaling Agile Communities of Practices and participates in the Agile Center of Excellence.
• Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments
• Experience in creating and delivering training content in a simple interactive manner for for various roles in Scrum, XP, SAFe.
• Should be a hands on passionate team player that can work at all levels across the organization.
• Experienced in launching ARTS, Training teams, Coach ART execution.
• Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity
• Leader, educator, coach and problem solver.
• An excellent communicator and motivator
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Horizon tooling experience (JIRA, CICD Tooling, etc.)
• Scrum Coach certification
• Scrum Master certification
• Experience coaching at large organizations (preferably financial) or Fortune 500 companies

Desired Skills: Computer Science background location: Jersey City, New Jerseyjob type: Contractsalary: $88.59 - 98.59 per hourwork hours: 9am to 5pmeducation: Bachelors responsibilities:

• Lead agile workshops, assessments for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders
• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them
• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices
• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching
• Coach senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from topdown.
• Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization
• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams

qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

skills:

Agile Methodology

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