Agile Coach (New York)

USC or GC ONLY

Locals ONLY

No 3rd Parties allowed.

Position Summary : The Agile Coach will play a key role in continuing the organizations Agile transformation journey. This position will provide agile coaching, support the adoption of the Agile playbook, and foster agile mindset for effective, transparent, and cohesive teams to enable better outcomes. This position will work with senior executives, as well as all levels of staff. 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.

Required Skills :

• 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

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