Manager| APM: Agile Coach | Finance Transformation

JD for Agile Coach

Agile coach helps organization, teams, and individuals in building Agile mindset using Agile principles and practices through coaching, facilitation, mentoring and change managements skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coaching and mentoring agile teams
• Agile Maturity assessment and enabling team to continuously improve
• Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices
• Value stream identification, value stream analysis and value stream mapping,
• Mapping OKRs/ Organization goals to Execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels
• Facilitating ART Launch
• Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement
• Working with Leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management group
• Conduct Big room trainings, brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment etc.
• Define revised org structure based on Agile
• Stakeholder management, influencing and running project governance, change management and benefits realization
• Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members
• Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools.
• Lead the development of a culture where development team and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices
• Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.
• Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams
• Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream
• Actively scans the external environment to stay abreast of, and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts and capabilities
• Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization

Required Skills:

• Overall 10-15 years of total experience including significant experience being a Scrum Master and 4-6 years in Agile Coaching
• Full time MBA / Engineering / equivalent
• Software development experience is preferred
• One or more of certifications such as SAFe, LeSS, CSP, PSM-II, CEC, SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF is a plus
• Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
• Coaching skills at different levels of the Organizations (Portfolio, ART and Teams) and Leadership
• Should be aware and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training and coaching tools, and models and knows when to apply them
• Should have experience in implementing one or more Scaling Agile frameworks.
• Effectively able to drive learning culture through workshops, meetings, and gamification techniques
• Has a deep understanding of communication, group dynamics and organizational culture
• Should have formal and/or informal education about coaching and strong mentor relationships
• Experience in product backlog management tools is highly desirable
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in Client Facing role
• Experience in Automotive/ Auto-ancillary industry is preferred

Other Requirements:

• Base location should be Bangalore or candidate should be willing to relocate to Bangalore
• Willingness and ability to take initiatives and learn independently