Agile Coach

The Agile Coach will play a key role in continuing the organization’s Agile transformation journey. This position will provide agile coaching, support the adoption of the Agile playbook, and foster an agile mindset for effective, transparent, and cohesive teams to enable better outcomes. The candidate should be self-motivated, extremely well-organized, detail-oriented, collegial, and able to function under pressure and handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Specific duties include working with Agile product/services teams to motivate, train, and execute the Agile playbook as it relates to governance and coaching. Develop reporting and metrics to show maturity progression of Agile teams throughout the transformation journey using your advanced knowledge of Atlassian Analytics.

Pay rate: $85-$90/hour on W2.

Qualifications Required:

• 5 years as an Agile Coach
• Demonstrated advanced proficiency in Jira, Confluence, Atlassian Analytics, Data Lake, Jira Align, Miro, Power BI
• Develop and manage comprehensive Jira/Confluence queries, dashboards, and performance metrics for reporting
• Create complex Jira workflows, design and manage Jira components including project workflows, screen schemes, and notification schemes
• Strong knowledge of JQL and ability to create and manage advanced queries
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of Atlassian products, administration best practices, and Agile methodology
• Performs team coaching at product and product portfolio level with a systemic approach to maximize learning, self-organization, performance, and sense of accountability, focusing on teams' capability to define and refine their agile processes and frameworks
• Performs team coaching to improve team relationships across the entire product and product portfolio level
• Performs consultancy to ensure that the team, product, and product portfolio level results are in line with Agile values and principles
• Performs mentoring to develop new agile team facilitators, including product manager, product owner, scrum masters, release engineers, and Agile coaches through a mentor-mentee relationship
• Facilitates team sessions whenever needed by other Scrum Masters or Release Engineers within the product and product portfolio level
• Conduct training on Agile tools, topics, values, and principles whenever needed
• Drives the Agile Community of Practice within the product and product portfolio
• Assess the product and product portfolio Agile maturity
• Drive the teams to optimal maturity level in the Agile mindset
• Creates and prioritizes an improvement backlog, driving it to action with the aid of other organizational areas
• Works in tandem with other Scrum Masters, Release Engineers, and Agile Coaches to spread agile values and principles in the entire organization
• Articulate and champion process changes when necessary to secure adoption and drive long-term solutions
• Strong communication skills, ability to effectively work and communicate with staff at all levels of the organization
• Participates in other organizational Agile Communities of Practice
• Applicable Certifications – Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Product Owner (CSPO), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), PMI-ACP, Kanban
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and MS Teams

Qualifications Desired:

• Tableau
• Value Stream Mapping

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Facilitates team sessions whenever needed by other Scrum Masters or Release Engineers within the product and product portfolio level
• Performs team coaching to improve team relationships across the entire product and product portfolio level

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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Requirements

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Massachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.