Required Agile Coach (100% remote role)

The OES Agile Coach guides the organization and delivery teams as they transition from traditional work styles to Agile mindset, behaviors, practices and/or Agile frameworks, like Scrum and Kanban.
Responsibilities:
• Able to transform teams from hybrid and waterfall software development practices to Scrum and Kanban where applicable.
• Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coach in close cooperation/collaboration across all roles, and functions to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.
• Model the Scrum Master responsibilities as part of coaching new teams.
• Provide coaching to Scrum Masters.
• Develop content, lead workshops and training sessions to educate individuals and leaders on Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Recommend, develop, track, and monitor Agile metrics on areas that affect value-driven delivery and indicate potential problems, and assist teams in implementing solutions to remediate those problems.
• Encourage adoption of Agile practices to improve delivery, communication, and teaming skills.
• Foster an environment of mutual respect, trust, collaboration, transparency, autonomy, innovation and quality.
• Generate new ideas, support change, encourage innovation, and help to creatively solve problems.
• Provide courageous and sometimes challenging feedback to leadership in order to coach and help them find their way forward in the new way of working.
• Guide and influence the creative process that inspires teams to embrace Agile frameworks.
• Coach teams to assess, measure, document, and communicate progress against defined Agile transformation goals.
• Deep understanding of Agile and Lean principles, along with the practical application of Scrum as a framework for working and Kanban as an approach to evolutionary change
• Significant hands-on experience in at least one of the roles on an agile team (e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer)
• Demonstrated evidence of continuous learning mindset
• Deep knowledge of multiple facilitation techniques
• Extended track record of delivering training in a manner than ensures knowledge transfer
• Demonstrable experience with a scaling framework.
• Experience collecting, interpreting, and communicating team metrics depicting progress/maturity.

Skills
• You will regularly assess teams’ Agile maturity, which will inform your coaching and development approach for each team
• You will bring your intellectual curiosity, love of learning new skills and capabilities, e.g., Agile principles and scrum values to influence change
• You will share innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done
• You have a deep background in coaching and developing people and agile teams and in influencing behavior change towards constant improvement
• You have an Agile leadership style: lead by example, role modeling situations and behaviors, challenge command and control behaviors, value the ideas and opinions of others. Ability to guide leaders and practitioners in fostering a learning and adaptive environment.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and MS Teams
• Excellent communication and people-interaction skills
Qualifications:
• 7 years working in an agile environment required
• 5 years coaching agile teams and Scrum Masters required
• Leadership facilitation experience preferred

Licenses
• Scrum Master Certification - either CSM, or PSM I, or PMI-ACP required
• Agile Coaching Certification required
• Scrum Scaling Certification - either SPS (Nexus), or SAFe (SA or SPC) preferred
• Advanced Scrum Master Certification: PSM II (Scrumorg) or A-CSM (Scrum Alliance) preferred