An excellent opportunity for Senior Agile Coach in New York, NY to drive flagship transformation program for Wall Street Client.
It’s one of the biggest transformation programs using distributed agile execution with as many as 20 sprints executing in parallel.
The Senior Agile Coach will be responsible for coaching and enabling the Application Delivery development teams.
The Senior Agile Coach role will help enable a culture of continuous improvement within Application Delivery, with the common goal to deliver valuable technology solutions rapidly and meaningfully to business partners.
Responsibilities:
Provides thought leadership in successfully executing multiple sprints in Agile through innovation and methodology improvements.
Provides consulting, coaching and training on Agile and related methodologies.
Provides recommendations to improve use, adoption and understanding of Agile delivery and enabling tools.
Applies process design and mapping techniques in association with suitable software lifecycle tools to define and improve the SDLC process for both waterfall and agile approaches.
Gathers information on existing processes. Performs analysis on current capabilities versus desired capabilities.
Facilitates process design meetings. Applies mapping and streamlining techniques to implement/improve processes.
Defines and authors best practices for agile project management, including backlog management, sprint process, user-story build-out, and product reporting in JIRA.
Deploys standard processes by communicating and training IT project teams.
Conducts reviews to ensure standard processes, policies, guidelines and artifacts are being utilized. Interprets results of reviews and executes remedial steps as necessary.
Collaborates with IT leadership and their teams and suppliers to ensure that proposed and existing IT improvement solution plans are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
Defines metrics to measure process effectiveness and track delivery maturity.
Required:
Sound knowledge and experience in Agile methods and practices.
Hands-on knowledge and experience in JIRA Agile tool for managing backlog, sprints, tasks, scrum boards, defects, and reporting.
Experience playing the Agile Coach role for a large scale enterprise agile transformation.
Experience coaching others in Agile concepts and practices (resume should clearly articulate the coaching experience in a large scale enterprise agile transformation).
Experience in creating and tailoring Agile processes and process improvements in a large organization acting in a leadership/consulting role.
Experience in Agile methodology project execution preferably in a distributed agile environment such as on-site/off-shore model.
In-depth knowledge of IT processes with understanding of how they operate and levers that impact performance this includes end to end software development lifecycle.
Strong planning, organizational, problem solving, team leadership and teamwork skills.
Excellent consultative skills with ability to influence and align across organizational skills.
Ability to build constructive relationships, present ideas and communicate change to all stakeholders.
Must be a confident, self-starter, self-motivated individual who really enjoys the challenges that come with driving, coaching, training and mentoring groups on process improvement.
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