Agile Coach - #1797451

Description

At Snowbird Agility, we are building a team of world-class Agilists that can respond to any organizational challenge.? While this position is for an Agile Coach, a Snowbird Agilist should also be able to be a Scrum Master or an RTE with expert level proficiency, and be competent at performing the Agile Project Manager role.?As we are a consulting firm, our Agilists must be ready to perform different Agile roles for different partner engagements.

An Agilist at Snowbird Agility thrives in an exciting, fast-paced environment. An Agilist focuses on enhancing the maturity of Agile practices and behaviors, and takes a systems view of agility. An Agilist is part of the leadership team, driving culture shifts that reshape work, learning, and innovation within our customer organizations. An Agilist helps redefine our customers’ work practices, builds strong communities, and fosters a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Champions the Lean and Agile mindset; teaches, coaches, and mentors others in Agile practices
• Identifies innovative solutions to team challenges, drawing patterns from established Agile frameworks, and interfacing with non-Agile elements
• Optimizes the flow of work across multiple Agile teams to reduce toil, leading to delivery of measurable product value with early and continuous product increments
• Leads the charge across multiple Agile teams to build community, fostering inter-team collaboration, developing a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement, and driving improvements through to fruition with insight gained through the intelligent use of data and metrics
• Motivates and enables others to take accountability to streamline product delivery processes and for them to efficiently manage large and complex products
• Communicates skillfully and fluently to people at all levels across the organization
• Skilled at systems thinking, with the ability to see the bigger picture and apply Agile principles at scale across the organization
  
  

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities)

• 6+ years of experience using various frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and other Agile frameworks at scale
• Strong Agile mindset, shaped by extensive experience and responding to situations based on intuition; demonstrated responsibility for role modeling a good Agile mindset, and how actions are guided by principles and values
• Exposure to a variety of situations have shaped how they apply a broad knowledge of different Agile practices and patterns; understands team level frameworks and how to operate successfully at scale
• High emotional intelligence and sensitivity
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills
• Broad experience in communicating across the organization, using intuition for applying the right approach to engage with people in the best way; high-level sense of responsibility for communicating and sharing information in the most appropriate way
• Able to analyze and to think quickly and to resolve conflict
• Maintains a high level of Agile integrity using positive Agile patterns and practices, while retaining a pragmatic attitude to understand change and maturity takes time
• Able to adapt to a changing environment
• Skilled at supporting multiple clients at a time
• Self-motivated, and able to maintain a professional, positive, “can-do” attitude while staying focused in the middle of distraction
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field