Agile Coach

Toronto, ON, Canada

Job Description

Story behind the need:

  • Reason for request/why opened: project need
  • Scope of Project: Infrastructure
  • Team Size/Culture: 50 people
Candidate profile details:
  • Degree/Certifications Required: SaFE cert, SPC
  • Years of Overall Experience: 7 to 8 years experience
  • Preferred Candidate Background: Finance and Infrastructure, CICD.
  • How will performance be measured: deliverables
  • Selling Points of Position (CVP): Long term contract, will be interacting with stakeholders, strategic position and high visibility project for the Bank.
Summary of day-to-day responsibilities:
  • Coaching RTE
  • Coaching PGO
  • Facilitating ceremonies with a scaled framework and guiding the team on how to facilitate them.
  • Your reputation as a Technical Agile Coach precedes you, and you will leverage your insights and knowledge of industry best practices to guide and coach teams as part of client's effort to implement Agile methodology enterprise wide for Technology initiatives.
  • Your hands-on coaching will help teams and business leaders get a deeper understanding of core Agile principles and practices around product management, conflict resolution and forecasting.
  • Your coaching style provides the tools your peers need to tackle complex problems and operate in a variety of delivery environments.
  • You own your space, and you help other teams own theirs, fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment that makes client the better bank.
Here are the essential job functions of this position:
  • Provide guidance to multiple Scrum Masters and teams on how to transition to and operate in scaled (or non-scaled) delivery environments and how to resolve complex problems, growing capability across the organization.
  • Includes direct support of work mobilization activities (e.g., road map development, functional decomposition).?Provide coaching plans and strategies to teams and individuals.
  • Helps teams anticipate internal and external delivery challenges and find solutions through process, product or service improvements.
  • Leverage significant in-depth expertise in Agile to help Scrum Masters resolve complex problems, taking a broad perspective to identify unique and innovative solutions, interpret internal and external obstacles and recommend best practices.
  • Drives continuous improvement of Agile practices and processes with an influence on industry best practices
  • Ability to establish goals and objectives and contribute to the team's overall direction;
  • Advanced skill in mentoring, coaching, listening, providing feedback and performance management
  • Skill in using computer applications including Jira and Confluence.
  • Demonstrates adaptability, flexibility and creativity in their approach to stakeholder engagement and works to support the Agile transformation agenda.
  • Supports business and technology ownership to ensure their ability / agile competencies to complete key activities required for agile delivery, including roadmap and story map development and how those activities translate to traditional approaches such as functional decomposition and architectural alignment
Job Requirements:
  • Undergraduate or post graduate degree
  • 7+ Years of experience as an Agile Coach/Specialist involved in large-scale Agile transformations
  • Expert knowledge of Agile principles and practices, with extensive experience working in an Agile organization
Must-Have Hard Skills:
  • Agile coach experience
  • CICD
  • FI experience
  • Infrastructure experience
  • Transformation experience
  • Leadership experience and qualities
Soft skills:
  • Strong communication skills
Nice-To-Have:
  • SAfe
Job Details
13600
Contract
12 months
Toronto
99.00 CAD
Recruiter
Karan Singh

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2809085
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Education
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