Agile Coach
Contract-to-Hire
Location: Columbus, OH or Merrillville, IN
Hybrid: Tuesday and Wednesday in the office and other days as needed.
Starting September 1, Hybrid will be in office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
**PLEASE NOTE OUR CLIENT DOES NOT ACCEPT C2C
About the Job:
This position will report directly to the Director, IT Business Management, and will be accountable for the following:
• Evangelize agility across the organization
• Influence and lead agile adoption and transformation within the organization
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training at all organizational levels in an emerging agile environment
• Assess the current organizational delivery environment, recommending and implementing optimal agile, lean, and complementary practices tailored to our needs
• Assess the agile health of the orbganization, and coach teams and management to higher levels of fluency, at a pace that is sustainable for the teams and organization
• Radiate helpful data and information to the organization, utilizing visual management techniques and information radiators, to report progress of the organization to anyone at anytime
Job Description:
The Enterprise Agile Coach promotes agile and lean adoption and transformation across our organization. They are accountable for embodying, promoting and supporting organizational agility. The Enterprise Agile Coach will provide mentoring, consulting, and guidance on applying agile and lean values, principles, and practices and their application within the organization. The Coach will utilize his/her in-depth knowledge and experience in the application of agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban practices to inspect and adapt thinking and practices to various situations. In this senior agile position, the Enterprise Agile Coach will be a strategic partner and thought leader for an organization transitioning to agile and lean ways of working. The coach will work with teams (collocated and distributed), leaders, and individuals, helping them to fully understand how to apply agile and lean frameworks and behaviors to deliver technology solutions in a complex utility environment.
• Influence and lead the execution of the agile transformation roadmap
• Provide agile leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, teams, management, and executives
• Guide people at all levels of the organization on how to use agile and lean values, agile and lean principles, and agile and lean framework practices to delight customers and build a culture of safety, trust, respect, simplicity, courage, transparency, self-management, and personal accountability
• Create, build, and deliver customized agile, lean, and complementary training
• Prepare and deliver effective communications regarding progress and results to all agile stakeholders
• Recommend, launch, influence, and facilitate agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, and agile working groups
• Stay current on new and evolving techniques, practices, and strategies in agile, lean, leadership, and other complementary disciplines
Requirements:
• Minimum 10 years of experience in IT delivery, with part of that experience working on an agile team
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience working with an enterprise agile transformation, preferably in a lead or agile coaching role
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Preferred but not required: Certification in the following - Professional Agile Leadership™ (PAL-E), Professional Agile Leadership™ - EBM (PAL-EBM), Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK), Scaled Professional Scrum™ (SPS)
MWResource does not discriminate based on race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or anything else that makes you part of any group.
MWResource offers medical, dental and vision coverage through Capital Blue Cross, short- and long-term disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, and participation in the MWResource 401K plan for US based consultants.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
Candidates will be required to pass a background check and drug screening.
Please note we are not open to outsourcing our recruitment needs.
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