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- The Senior Agile Coach will be a crucial member to support the Head of Finance Transformation utilizing the SAFe Agile methodology. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Deep leadership, problem-solving, communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in the following areas: finance, the businesses, risk, operations and technology. The position could result in full-time employment.
- Responsibilities
- Provide Agile coaching, which will require expertise in Agile Scrum, SAFe - All aspects, Extreme Programming, Test driven development and Kanban principles, methods and techniques
- Lead identification and creation of format for Agile Life cycle management tool - Jira, Confluence Symphony
- Ensure there is a tool infrastructure in place to support the agile transformation. Associated stop-gap solutions while we build the final solutions
- Plan and execute the roll out of that infrastructure across time and associated adoption strategy and training
- Onboard third party tools, manage Jira instances, create and maintain the confluence site, enable automate reporting and more.
- Instruct managers on the basics of Agile tools, such as Scrum and Kanban
- Mentor: Focusing on people and Continuous Improvement all the time; provide team a platform for improvement not only during the retro but all the time. Create a safe environment for healthy conflict and meaningful collaboration.
- Deliver effective training classes on a variety of Agile transformation related topics as well as contribute to customer design
- Set up the required infrastructure required to run Scaled Agile effectively.
- Be prepared to act as Product Manager/Owner or scrum master when teams are lacking these roles or learning them.
- At times, manage a team of contracting Agile coaches as needed
- Qualifications
- 5-10 years delivering projects in an Agile manner
- Must have SAFe SPC
- Must have Jira Tooling Certificate
- Strong project management background but works at getting things done
- Extensive experience in Agile tool identification, implementation and customization
- Exposure to the banking or finance function domain a must
- Excellent organizational oral and written and communication skills
- Ability to interact with all levels of organization in a professional, diplomatic and tactful manner
- Ability to thrive in an environment with a high degree of change
- Ability to manage organizational change initiatives
- Be relentlessly focused on Outcome driven development
- Proven ability to guide the breaking down of large scale projects into SMART incremental objectives
- Veteran in marrying Agile with Waterfall as necessary to deliver enterprise wide SAFe initiative
- Education:
- Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Master's degree
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