Agile Coach

Agile Coach

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Agile Coach for an opportunity in Houston, TX!

Position Title: Agile Coach

Location: Houston, TX

Anticipated Start Date: Tentative Start Date

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 7 months contract.

Job Type: Contract, [On-Site]

Pay Range: [$61.25] to [$65.15]

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Description:

Title: Agile Coach

Location: Houston, TX

Duration: 6 months contract to hire

Key responsibilities:

Acts as a catalyst of positive change, inspiring and motivating individuals to embrace an agile mindset.

Mentors, coaches, and supports individuals, teams and the organization across mindset, culture, practices and structure towards organizational adaptability and delivery effectiveness.

Facilitates highly effective events and sessions for the teams and organization as needed, such as reviews, retrospectives, workshops, and training.

Continually builds their knowledge and grows the knowledge of the teams and organization with the latest advancements in agility.

Partners with agile thought leadership across the organization to solve problems and increase adoption and understanding.

Supports and enables effective approaches for de-scaling and scaling agility ensuring transparency and reduction of handoffs and dependencies across teams of teams.

Supports the removal of impediments to increasing agility and effectiveness for the team and the organization.

Cultivates the health and the effectiveness of teams through qualitative and quantitative measures along key dimensions of culture, practices, mindset, and structure, while ensuring appropriate usage of the measures by the teams and the organization.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Expert in agile and lean practices and approaches

Scrum Master and Team Coaching certifications: PSM 2/3, A-CSM, CSP-SM, ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, ICE-AC.

Solid understanding of de-scaling and scaling approaches for agility, such as Team Topologies, Nexus, LeSS, Scrum of Scrums, Scrum at Scale, SAFe.

Ability to collaborate and influence people at various levels.

Deep understanding of the core skills of facilitating, coaching, mentoring, training, and leading in an agile lean context.

Several years of software development experience such as leadership, engineering, or testing.

Several years of Scrum Master and agile team coaching experience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Tools: Jira, Jira Align, Lucid spark, Confluence; or similar.

Financial Services or regulatory industry experience.

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 240932 when responding to this ad.