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Agile Coach

Date Posted: 11/15/2023

Job #1663694
Contract
ny, New York

We have partnered with our client in their search for an Agile Coach
Responsibilities:

  • Strong communication skills, ability to effectively work and communicate with staff at all levels of the organization
  • Drives the Agile Community of Practice within the product and product portfolio.
  • Performs team coaching at product and product portfolio level with a systemic approach to maximize learning, self-organization, performance and sense of accountability, focusing on teams' capability to define and refine their agile processes and frameworks.
  • Performs consultancy to ensure that the team, product and product portfolio level results are in line with Agile values and principles.
  • Performs team coaching to improve team relationships across the entire product and product portfolio level.
  • Performs mentoring to develop new agile team facilitators, including product manager, product owner, scrum masters, release engineers and Agile coaches through a mentor-mentee relationship.
  • Train teams in Agile topics, values and principles whenever needed.
  • Facilitates team sessions whenever needed by other Scrum Masters or Release Engineers within the product and product portfolio level.
  • Assess the product and product portfolio Agile maturity.
  • Creates and prioritizes an improvement backlog, driving it to action with the aid of other organizational areas.
  • Works in tandem with other Scrum Masters, Release Engineers and Agile Coaches to spread agile values and principles in the entire organization.
  • Articulate and champion process changes when necessary
  • Participates in other organizational Agile Communities of Practice.
Skills Required:
  • Participates in other organizational Agile Communities of Practice.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Jira/Confluence
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
Education & Work Experience:
  • 5+ years as an Agile Coach
  • Applicable Certifications – Scrum Master (CSM), Product Owner (CPO), PMI-ACP
     
  • Title: Agile Coach
    Location: New York, NY
    Client Industry: Financial Services
    Pay: 80-90/hour

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