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Senior Program Level Agile Coach - FULLY REMOTE - LONG TERM CONTRACTAgile Coaching works with multiple teams to determine their current level of agile maturity, and develops plans to improve agile processes and increase the productivity of the agile team accordingly. Assists agile teams with: Creating and maintaining collaborative communication sites and tools; Chartering boot camps, and other intensive trainings as required; and, refining implementation of agile best practices and tools. Provides expert coaching to key agile roles such as Experience Group Owners, Solution Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Agile Product Owners, and Experience Owners, etc., as required. Assists with the identification, collection and reporting of agile practice metrics and measurements. Organizes and participates in agile events, contributes to communication sites/tools, and delivers presentations to Stakeholders across the organization. Identifies and works to resolve barriers to scaling use of agile. Helps teams create working agreements to ensure proper communication and coordination occurs within the taxonomy; where useful, these will be drafted at the time of team formation and updated as needed. The candidate provides counsel and advice to top management on significant matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.This position requires deep knowledge and experience with agile and the ability to inspect and adapt thinking/ practices to various situations.This position will focus on launching and supporting ARTs.In this position, you will get to coach teams at the program level to local and distributed teams. You will support clients using a variety of agile approaches in the context of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). You will coach teams of different levels of maturity; across portfolios, programs and development teams. A critical component of this role is detailed knowledge of the application of agile practices and principles and experience with metrics to effectively measure: execution, performance, benefits and value.Where appropriate, responsible for standing up the program layer of initiatives (i.e., Agile Release Trains) and for providing agile coaching, training, and implementation.In order to ensure consistency of practices, you will use the Agile CoE assets such as Agile@, 's Agile playbook, assessments, etc.Be an enterprise evangelist of agile ceremonies, practices and values.Actively participate with the Agile CoE team to build necessary materials needed to continue to improve and support 's Agile maturity improvement.Required:
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5)
- Experience standing up and launching at least 2 Release Trains in the past 2 years
- Deep knowledge of SCRUM and Kanban
- 4+ years of agile coaching experience, including 10MM plus programs with offshore and distributed teams.
- 7+ years of IT experience. Prior delivery role (e.g., PM, release manager, developer, tester) experience highly desirable.
- Excellent facilitation and written and verbal skills.
- One or more Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSPO, CSP, PSM, PSPO). Additional SAFe certifications (SA, Pm/PO SP) highly desirable.
- Experience with several agile project management tools (Jira/Jira Align, Rally, Version One etc)
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