About This Role
Seeking an Agile Coach who is SAFe 6 certified and can serve as a strategic change agent championing enterprise-wide lean agile enablement and transformation. This role drives continuous improvement across the organization through Agile, SAFe, Scrum, and Lean values/practices and servant leadership. The selected candidate will play two important roles: training Scrum Teams on the SAFe 6 Framework and participating as an Agile Coach to Scrum Software Development Teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide coaching to teams and programs on all aspects of Lean Agile and Product transformation
- Help teams decide on team and program level frameworks (e.g., SAFe, Scrum, Kanban)
- Work with teams to mature their agile mindset, practices, and ceremonies
- Coach key roles to achieve business results
- Help teams improve predictability, productivity, quality, and flow
- Support and guide efforts to bring transparency across the organization and stakeholders
- Drive the journey towards high-performing teams/programs by creating psychological safety and trust
- Enable self-managing teams, transparency, team empowerment, and continuous learning
- Help identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
- Prepare teams for ART launch, train teams and leadership, and coach ART execution
- Help drive continuous improvement at the ART level
- Champion enterprise-wide lean agile adoption, product transformation, and continued improvement
- Work at all levels (team, stakeholder, and organizational leadership) to help the organization use Lean Agile as a strategic asset
- Work with peers and management to define and refine the enterprise agile vision
- Drive the organization-wide lean agile enablement/transformation strategy and roadmap
- Develop, implement, and improve lean-agile metrics, supporting roll out
- Continuously improve enterprise lean agile practices and enhance/develop training materials
- Work with stakeholders to understand the flow of value across the enterprise
- Identify and remove enterprise-level blockers that impact business agility
- Impart SAFe certified trainings and other necessary trainings to various stakeholders
Requirements
- Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Level 6 is required
- Bachelor's Degree (In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience)
- 10 years of relevant use of Lean, Agile methodologies
- Proven success leading large-scale Agile transformation
- Minimum of 5 years as an Agile Coach
- Experience training teams and leadership on SAFe certified training curriculum and other Agile/Lean/Product training