Agile Coach – 12 month contract – Daily Rate Contrac
The Role
As an Agile Coach, you blend deep agile expertise with a passion for constant improvement through coaching, mentoring and guiding teams and individuals to continuously evolve their agile approach and way of working and thinking. You will advise/coach/mentor agile leaders and teams to achieve their full potential to deliver value by acting as a change agent, role model, and teacher and will support them as they continue to mature and evolve their understanding and application of agile principles, practices and behaviors (e.g., leadership, Scrum, MVPs) across their domains, product areas, and squads.
- Influencing the approach and behaviors of associates, including senior leaders, to embrace and demonstrate agile principles and practices and the leadership behaviors required to support them
- Engaging within and across domains, product areas and squads, to identify and enable opportunities to improve maturity, and providing relevant training, resources, and practices to increase value delivered
- Facilitating ongoing training of individuals, teams and cohorts to build and evolve agile behaviors and practices
- Improving agile metrics and value delivered in partnership with scrum masters, squad leaders and product area leaders
- Continuously strengthening the agile culture and practices by collaborating and sharing findings and knowledge across teams, the organization and with fellow coaches
Requirements:
- Advanced Agile-related certifications and demonstrable experience in application thereof; e.g. RS@SP, CAL (E, T, or O), ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, or similar
- Deep Agile knowledge with several years of Agile Coaching experience
- Demonstrable experience coaching a team-of-teams, or a combination of multiple team coaching engagements and team-of-teams level coaching
- 4+ years’ experience in an agile leadership role (e.g., Scrum Master, Squad Leader/Product Owner, Chapter Leader)
- Track record of training, coaching and mentoring teams and individuals at various levels
- Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
- Financial services experience preferred
- You are a trusted advisor highly skilled at coaching, consulting, mentoring, influencing, and fearlessly challenging, teams, leaders and associates at all levels of the organization on behavioral changes that will deliver continuous improvement and increased value
- You have a continuous improvement approach
- You assess agile health and maturity and use this to inform your coaching, mentoring and development approach
- You are flexible in your approach and share innovative and creative thinking as you mentor teams and associates through solving problems to deliver increased value
- You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
- You have a track record of coaching senior leaders on agile behaviors and leadership to support those behaviors
