Discipline - Information Technology

Industry - IT General Management

Position Description :

Job Description :

Agile Coach will be integral part of Optum global agile practice. Agile Coach will work with multiple teams with varying levels of agile maturity. He should be able to continuously improve and promote practice in global distributed development teams. The Agile Coach will work daily with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, development team as well as Program Managers, Senior Leaders and others responsible for agile adoption and execution. Agile coach will also responsible for setting up comprehensive practice and associated documentation.

Key Responsibilities :

- Collaborate with Optum Agile Community to develop training, processes and tools suitable for distributed large agile teams.

- Train and coach engineering and product management teams in Agile/Scrum management, cultural and development practices.

- Serve as an expert on agile software principles to engineering managers, developers, quality engineers, UX engineers, software designers, and architects.

- Identify and extract process improvements that will result in measurable quality, predictability and efficiency improvements.

- Establish metrics and tools to achieve predictability and high quality of software in a fast paced, challenging, and creative environment.

- Review the project and identify gaps and area of improvement.

- Facilitating all Scrum ceremonies and running interventions to coach and guide.

- Coaching and mentoring other scrum masters, individuals and teams

Requirements :

To be considered for this position, applicants need to meet the qualifications listed in this posting.

Qualifications/Skills :

- B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA/M. Sc (full time courses only) with 13- 16 years of relevant experience

- Minimum of three (3) years of Agile Coaching experience

- Six (6) Years using Agile practices to develop software solutions.

- Ten (10) or more years of IT/business solutions experience

- Should have experience in implementing agile practice in globally distributed team.

- Certified as either a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, CSM, CSPO, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC)

- Experience introducing and leading implementations of Agile values, principles, and practices including (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP) into an organization

- Deep understanding of all software lifecycle development disciplines - Requirements Management, Analysis & Design, Quality Assurance (Testing), Implementation, Deployment, Configuration & Change Management

- Hands on experience implementing Agile technical practices (e.g. Automated testing, TDD, continuous integration)

- Technical currency and vision to evaluate Agile development tools, technology and trends

- Ability to identify opportunity for improvement, able to promote culture of continues improvement.

- Demonstrated experience with meeting facilitation and negotiation.

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