Agile Coach

Agile Coach

31 Dec 2023
North Carolina, Charlotte, 28255 Charlotte USA

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: Charlotte, North Carolina

job type: Contract

salary: $85 - 95 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: 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





qualifications:


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


skills:
  • Agile Methodology




  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

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    Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).



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