Enterprise Agile Coach

ClearlyAgile•Tampa, FL

4h•Remote

About The Position

Join a team of professionals who are passionate about their work, love cross-training and the adoption of cutting-edge technologies. We care about our employees and foster an environment in which they can thrive by providing them the tools and training necessary to get the job done. Our team is a place where we encourage self-starters, and everyone’s ideas are heard and valued! What you’ll be doing is working with our agile team to help deliver key deliverables and guide our clients through their agile transformation. Building materials and resources for client use on future projects. Assessing teams, scrum masters and the organization and helping to provide key metric to track trending and improvement. Every client has different needs that often require the adoption of new technologies, methods and frameworks. Sometimes you’ll be working alone but a lot of the time you’ll be working alongside and pairing side-by-side with another team member. Those job duties include: Collaborates on the creation and evolution of the Agile transformation roadmap and owns driving activities across the organization Supports development and monitoring of Agile adoption/maturity metrics to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts and to gauge the maturity progress of new and existing teams Helps define and ensure consistent agile standards and best practices in alignment with the Agile Lead’s vision Advances best practices for scaling and optimizing the agile practice Develops and monitors metrics to track progress of Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts Develops training materials and deliver across the organization Provides individual coaching to delivery team members, managers, executives, and other employees throughout the company Participates, organizes, facilitates communities of practice to help foster lean and agile thinking Mentors Agile delivery teams, their coaches, stakeholders and leaders to help them adopt the mindset and practices needed to transform the organization May at times fill various roles based on organizational needs and your own abilities, including: Scrum Master and Team Coach Other duties as assigned What we’re looking for is an Enterprise Agile Coach who is passionate about helping teams realize their full potential by coaching and enabling the organization to deliver outstanding product as fast as possible while having fun. The ability to coach, mentor and teach teams, as well as, work closely with senior management to advance agility at the enterprise level are key components for success in this position. We would like someone who appreciates the depths of agile practices and principles and can help teams appreciate them, too. Someone who can help management at all levels of the organization to understand the benefits of working agile and who can assist in raising and removing organizational impediments.

Requirements

3+ years experience implementing Scrum or Kanban from the ground up for multiple teams
3+ years Agile Coaching (ability to coach multiple teams in the principles of Agile and the practices of Scrum / Kanban)
A track record of leadership in Agile transformation in large organizations
Proven knowledge of the application of Agile at scale and demonstrated ability to coach and lead the cultural and organizational change to make it work
A passion and commitment to your own personal development demonstrated by participation in Agile Industry activities and groups as speaker, volunteer or organizer
Self-starter with Consultant Mentality - Need to be able to coach and guide the client and teams
Ability to manage senior level relationships
Strong communication/presentation skills to effectively interact with clients, internal teams and leadership
Knowledge and experience in two or more Agile or Lean frameworks – Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Extreme Programming
Certified ScrumMaster required (PSM acceptable)
Must be within reasonable commuting distance to the Tampa Bay Area, or willing to relocate without assistance
Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship (no subcontracts or visa sponsorship)

Nice To Haves

Coaching Certification preferred (ICP-ACC, Co-Active, ORSC, CEC, CTC)
SAFe certification preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborates on the creation and evolution of the Agile transformation roadmap and owns driving activities across the organization
Supports development and monitoring of Agile adoption/maturity metrics to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts and to gauge the maturity progress of new and existing teams
Helps define and ensure consistent agile standards and best practices in alignment with the Agile Lead’s vision
Advances best practices for scaling and optimizing the agile practice
Develops and monitors metrics to track progress of Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts
Develops training materials and deliver across the organization
Provides individual coaching to delivery team members, managers, executives, and other employees throughout the company
Participates, organizes, facilitates communities of practice to help foster lean and agile thinking Mentors Agile delivery teams, their coaches, stakeholders and leaders to help them adopt the mindset and practices needed to transform the organization
May at times fill various roles based on organizational needs and your own abilities, including: Scrum Master and Team Coach
Other duties as assigned