Job Description :
Job Title: Agile Coach
Location: Hartford CT
Duration: 6+ Months
Mandatory skills: Agile,Scrum,Safe
Job Description:
8+ years of IT experience
-4+ years of experience in an Agile delivery environment
-3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach
-3+ years Project Management experience
-2+ years of leading people from an HR perspective
-2+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple scrum team projects
-2+ years of experience working on mixed methodology program (Scrum interfacing with Waterfall from a dependency perspective)
-SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4) Certification and relevant work experience
-Bachelor''s Degree in an IT related field
-Experience with Agile Planning Tools, preferably Rally
-Communicative and social – Must be able to clearly interact with teams
-Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
-Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
-Situational Awareness – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
-Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy
-Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
-Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
-Attitude of transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
-Quick learner – Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the Scrum teams
-Ability to coach others in basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
-Ability to coach others in backlog refinement, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
-Ability to coach others in incremental delivery and the value of metrics
-Excellent English communication skills in written and spoken form
Assets:
-Agile / Scrum Industry Certification(s)
-SAFe Certification(s)
-Project Management Industry Certification(s)
-Healthcare experience
-Understanding of other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
-Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
-Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
-Participation in industry agile communities