Job Description

Location: Coquitlam, BC, Canada

Job Type: Contract

Date: 9/15/2022

Job ID: JZ286951915

Category: Information Technology

Join a top employer and advance your career. Aplin has partnered with our client to seek an Agile Coach who will be responsible for coaching, mentoring, and training individuals, teams, domains, as well as the organization towards a high-level of agile maturity.

This is a 12-month contract available to candidates in Vancouver or Calgary.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Agile mentoring and training to teams and individuals at our Vancouver location and various Teck operational sites
• Support and mentor the planning and delivery of team onboarding, uplifting, and/or accelerator programs
• Provide mentorship when required for teams to guide an agile approach to daily meetings, planning, teamwork, and managing workflow
• Add to the company's library of agile knowledge through the development of Agile Playbook articles, blogs, case studies, podcasts, or the generation of video content
• Use industry best practices in mentoring, process improvement experience, and agile methodologies to help teams deliver business value
• Lead or participate in the design of training material aligned to the emergent needs of the organization
• Speak at conferences and professional community meetups
• Lead the agile maturity journey for an assigned domain/portfolio/Team of teams pathing out and documenting their plan with them to reach their maturity goals

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of large-scale Agile mentoring experience with methods such as Scrum or Kanban
• 5+ years' experience in working with/leading multiple teams
• Hands-on experience applying lean/Agile methodologies proven by the experience of being a Scrum Master or Product Owner on an agile team
• Excellent presentation, training, and coaching skills, a working engagement product is the highest measure of progress, you also bring concise narratives and strong transparency through high-quality presentation documents
• Ability and willingness to train and facilitate in-person events
• Ability and willingness to use virtual teamwork tools (Miro, Virtual Whiteboards, MS Teams) to host pieces of training or facilitation for geographically dispersed teams
• Ability to craft workshops or interventions aligned with Adult Learning Principles
• Can demonstrate the use of strong communication skills in interpersonal conflict conditions
• Understanding of DevOps and DevOps tools is desirable (Azure DevOps in particular)
• Elevated credentials such as Scrum Alliance CTC, CEC; SAFe SPC; IC Agile are considered assets
• Certified Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC); or a demonstrable development path of training and practical experience showing your evolution as a mentor is considered an asset
• Familiarity with traditional project delivery and transformation to Agile is considered an asset
• Able to work remotely most of the time and available to travel occasionally (

25%) to other corporate offices in Canada

Job ID: JZ286951915

If you are interested in this position and meet the qualifications, apply today! We thank all applicants; however, only those who are authorized to work in Canada or are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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