Brooksource | Agile Coach

2 days ago

columbus, United States Brooksource Full time

Agile Coach

Columbus, Ohio

Contract to Hire

Brooksource is looking for an Agile Coach to join the VMO Talent Advancement team at their #1 Banking client in the Columbus area, to be an expert in Agile culture, values, and practices. In this role you will work collaboratively with the broader VMO team and the teams they support to expand and formalize the company’s Agile coaching and training practices ensuring continuity across the organization while also working to continuously mature those practices.

Detailed Description:

This position requires a change agent capable of building and reinforcing the Agile mindset and principles in the day to day work of the teams they coach. They provide consultative mentoring, training, and professional coaching to aid individuals and teams transforming their behaviors towards an Agile way of working.

To be successful the Agile Coach must be an excellent communicator, trainer, and collaborator. They must be able to build credibility and a high level of trust with colleagues, teams, and varying levels of leadership while building out a best in class technology training experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Establish collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders and team members to aid in the Agile adoption journey
  • Collaborate across the VMO to design and support full Agile transformations within teams
  • Coach and guide teams on the mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness
  • Work with Experience Owners, Execution Managers, and Scrum Masters to track and report on Agile Metrics & KPIs to understand progress and to leverage data for backlog management and reporting
  • Deliver hands-on coaching of individual teams in all aspects of Agile Frameworks (e.g. daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, backlog maturity, limiting WIP, etc.)
  • Create, build, and deliver customized Agile training meeting VMO branding standards
  • Mentor understanding of team of team principles through understanding Program Management (metrics, intake, prioritization, and allocation)
  • Embrace servant leadership and display behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with agility
  • Collaboratively create, launch, and facilitate Agile groups, Communities of Practice, and Agile Working Groups
  • Demonstrate a strong fundamental understanding of business operations (e.g. planning, budgeting, resource management, etc.)
  • Collaborate across the VMO to provide content exposing colleagues to innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility
  • Drive continuous improvement ensuring quality delivery and minimization of unnecessary process overhead
  • Coach teams to analyze Agile metrics in order to make data and value driven decisions
  • Collaborate across the VMO to help evolve tools processes to ensure data is accurate and accessible
  • Collaborate with and mentor scrum masters on improving their craft and level of agile maturity
  • Coach and mentor functional managers to improve their understanding of and agile capabilities

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years minimum experience working in an Agile environment in a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Developer role
  • Deep agile expertise; has a strong understanding of servant leadership, the Agile Manifesto's values and principles, multiple agile frameworks, and agility at scale
  • Extended track record of delivering training in a manner ensuring knowledge transfer
  • High degree of initiative and flexibility; able to tailor agile practices and facilitation style based on the context of the team and organization
  • Excellent interpersonal skills; must excel at team building, one-on-one conversations, and issue resolution
  • Strong communication skills; clearly presents complex information verbally and visually to team members, stakeholders, and leadership
  • Strong effective listening skills; able to engage in a conversation and show that they hear what is being said and can read the nonverbal cues of their audience
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • Possesses the ability to grow others; understands how to train, mentor, and coach individuals and teams, helping them become better agilists, team members, and leaders
  • Strong problem-solving skills; able to find creative ways to improve teams across all levels of scale, with a focus on optimizing the overall system
  • Strong leadership skills and a positive attitude; able to remain professional and upbeat while under pressure, serving as a steady and motivating presence for those being supported and coached
  • Possesses a relentless drive for continuous improvement
  • Must be able to build trust and confidence and across individuals, teams and leadership


Preferred Requirements:

  • Strong understanding or experience with Azure DevOps
  • Experience with Lean Toolkit
  • Experience in the financial industry


ABOUT EIGHT ELEVEN:

At Eight Eleven, our business is people. Relationships are at the center of what we do. A successful partnership is only as strong as the relationship built. We’re your trusted partner for IT hiring, recruiting and staffing needs.

For over 16 years, Eight Eleven has established and maintained relationships that are designed to meet your IT staffing needs. Whether it’s contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent placement work, we customize our search based upon your company's unique initiatives, culture and technologies. With our national team of recruiters placed at 21 major hubs around the nation, Eight Eleven finds the people best-suited for your business. When you work with us, we work with you. That’s the Eight Eleven promise.

Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex,

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