Description
The Role: Senior Agile Coach
The Location: Dublin
The Duration: 6-Months
The Senior Agile Coach will report to the Agile Practice Execution Lead within the company's Commercial Technology Division. This role will be responsible for coaching and enabling the Application Delivery development teams. The Senior Agile Coach role will help to enable a culture of continuous improvement within Application Delivery, with the common goal to deliver valuable technology solutions rapidly and meaningfully to business partners.
This coaching and agile best practices role will support the organisation's goals through the following key job responsibilities:
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the depths of agile practices and principles and help the teams appreciate them.
- Articulate and help leaders at all levels of the organisation, both business and technology, to understand the benefits of working agile.
- Coach and mentor others. Support and train team members to optimise their absorption of agile and internalize the methodology. Enable development of self-sustaining agile teams.
- Drive organisational change, in addition to agile best practices and capabilities within the team, enabling the team to adopt and take ownership of their individual roles.
- Support team cohesiveness and enable Scrum Master, Product Owner and other roles to effectively perform their roles.
- Help support agile tool adoption and consistent utilisation, in partnership with the Tools & Process Engineering team.
- Ensure consistency across the teams, in collaboration with Transformation Partner and Application Delivery leaders.
- Raise issues and drive change to remove impediments from the teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- SPC4 Certified Essential
- 10+ years technology experience, with at least 5+ years direct experience in Agile Transformation Delivery and Coaching
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally) Software, Kanban and Lean highly preferable
- Experience performing these roles in the insurance/financial services industry, in a multi-national organisation highly preferable
- Certified Scrum Master/Scrum Practitioner highly preferable
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle
- Has faced difficult challenges, organisational impediments, and has become a coach to managers and other outsiders in the course of addressing them
- Passionate about communication, group dynamics and coaching others
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills; Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
Live Role - Top Daily Rates! If you are interested in this role please get in touch with Micaela or (see below)