Senior Agile Coach

Vdart  inc

Job description: 

• 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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