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Agile Coach
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Monterey Park, CA, United States
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Description
Job Summary
As our Agile Transformation Coach, you will help design and implement a strategy for teams to continuously improve their use of Agile principles and practices – Help teams inspect, adapt, deliver and mature. You will leverage your agile/lean mindset and coaching expertise to facilitate the process and partner with internal stakeholders within the Technology and Products organization.
Your Impact:
Be highly entrepreneurial. Influence executives, leaders, business units, and technology teams on Agile principles, values, how to build, grow, and maintain a thriving agile organization at scale.
Major Responsibilities:
• Help design and support full Agile transformation roll-outs.
• Provide Agile Leadership coaching and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, functional managers, and executives.
• Collaborate directly with software and operations teams to coach and guide them on the mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness.
• Deliver hands-on coaching of individual teams in all aspects of scrum and kanban - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting wip, etc.
• Expose our technology teams to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility, leveraging lean, scrum, kanban, and other agile thinking.
• Create Enterprise wide initiatives: internal certification (SM, PO).
• Clearly define enterprise-wide guidelines (e.g, DoD, SM, and PO qualifications and responsibilities).
• Ensure strong organizational information flow (scaling the coach).
• Create, launch, and facilitate Agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, and Agile Working Groups.
• Continuously develop potential and existing coaches impacting all levels of the organization.
• Embrace servant leadership and display the behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with Agile methods.
• Coach teams and management towards improving Agile process and metrics, evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams, and deliver training classes for product owners, developers, and testers.
• Create, build, and deliver customized Agile training.
Qualifications
• 5+ years experience working in technology and/or financial organizations.
• 3+ years of large-scale Agile coaching experience with methods such as XP, Scrum, Lean, or Kanban. JIRA familiarity Education: BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.