Senior Agile Coach

Overview

On Site
Hybrid
$50 - $60
Contract - W2

Skills

Agile coach
CSM
Finance OR Banking Industry

Job Details

Sr. Agile Coach

6 months contract

Location Maryland Heights MO

Duties: An senior agile coach helps a teams or individual adopt and improve agile methods and practice. A coach helps people rethink and change the way they go about development. The coach can help teams apply agile and lean thinking to the specific environments and impediments they face. Working as an advisor, the coach can help the team adapt the methodology to their situation, and help them challenge the existing environment.

Responsibilities:
Contribute to the strategic business agility planning for the whole organization
Contribute to the development and maintenance of applicable standards for Agile processes across teams
Develop, collect, maintain, and leverage learning materials between teams
Develop dashboards of the health of the organization that enhance transparency. This includes but is not limited to metrics and reporting.
Promoted, implement and maintain tooling that promotes agility, e.g. Confluence, Trello, Jira
Provide leadership for other coaches, scrum masters and members of the agility team
Recruit and train new agility team (Scrum Masters/ Coaches) members.
Continually introduce new ideas and fresh experiments to our organization from those that we respect
Encourage teams to adhere to the rules of scrum and their delivery
Hold teams accountable to their commitment to complete work to satisfy their definition of done, and escalate when necessary
Drive teams toward continuous improvement, e.g. help lead retrospectives to actionable outcomes
Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely manner
Facilitate team development, healthy team dynamics, self-organization, and transparency
Empower teams to become self-sufficient and rely less on external assistance, e.g. Scrum Master
Keep a positive energy to motivate and engage teams

Qualifications:
Technical Degree or related work experience
Certifications such as CSM Certification (Certified Scrum Master)
Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and empowerment
Experience with using Agile and Lean practices
Experience working with monitoring and tracking tools, including Confluence, Trello, Jira, and Survey Monkey

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