Job Description
General Information:
Fully Remote- Open to any time zone with some schedule flexibility but the worker must be available during the core working hours of 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CST
U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders only
Must be able to work on our W2- No C2C.
Initial Contract is listed from 12/02/2024- 10/18/2025 with the opportunity to extend/ convert into a full time employee down the road.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in IT related fields
- 2-3 years of experience coaching at the portfolio level or higher
- Expert skills and knowledge in Agile frameworks (Agile, Lean, Scrum, XP, etc)
- Embodied servant leadership
- Excellent skills in facilitation, conflict resolution, and empowerment
- Experience using ALM tools (AHA, JIRA, Confluence)
- Experience using agile assessment platforms (AgilityHealth) to guide performance driven coaching outcomes
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in IT related fields
- Certifications such as ICAgile Certifications in Coaching, Facilitation, and/or Business Agility Foundations (ICP-ACC, ICP-ACF, ICP-BAF), CSM Certifications (CSM, CSP-SM), AgilityHealth (AHF - Facilitator, CIC (Continuous Improvement Champion)
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, and other Agilists to develop comprehensive coaching plans designed to improve agile ways of working at the portfolio, product, and team levels.
- Act as a key change agent and lead others through transformation at the executive level as well as coach and mentor key roles in the portfolio.
- Be pragmatic in coaching and adapt the frameworks and tools in agile toolkit to impact streamlined delivery, improve quality, and ensure teams are achieving business outcomes and value delivery.
- Thoughtfully develop and advance transformation roadmap at the portfolio level that is customer-centric, and business outcome focused
- Partner with portfolio leadership for strategic business agility planning
- Advise leaders on team topologies structured to streamline value delivery
- Facilitate agile maturity assessments and guide leaders & teams in continual improvement activities
- Teach, mentor, and coach individuals, teams and team of teams on agile practices
- Contribute to the development and evolution of Agile Standards across the organization
- Leverage experimentation and rapid learning to improve agile practices and delivery outcomes
- Utilize information radiators, agile artifacts, metrics and reporting to guide direction and measure impacts
- Encourage and coach business leaders to focus on outcomes over outputs and establish clear key results
- Model agile behaviors and servant leadership with a drive for relentless improvement
- Develop self-organized/managed teams and team of teams