Skills
- SAFe Scaled Agile Coach
Job Description
- SAFe Scaled Agile Practice Consultant 6.0- REQUIRED
- 6 or more years' experience coaching agile teams
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working in engineering, IT, or a related field
- 3+ years' experience guiding Agile portfolios, product lines, and budgeting
- Experience transitioning waterfall Project Management Lifecyle to Agile Product Delivery in complex, highly regulated environment
- Experience with 2 large scale (150+ people impacted) Agile transformation efforts
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, AgilityHealth, SAFe Enterprise
- Proven ability to think strategically, and to communicate strategy to large organization
- Substantial experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, SAFe, XP, DevSecOps
- Familiarity with infrastructure concepts to facilitate delivery of DevOps components of the Agile Transformation
- Communication, presentation and facilitation skills
- Active engagement in external agile and product communities with a network of professional contacts outside of the organization
- Up to 25% Travel may be required
Must be able to operate in a virtual environment
location: Washington, Washington, D.C.
job type: Contract
salary: $100.11 - 102.12 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Be an active Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) 6 with experience delivering and certifying SAFe 5 courses using SAFe Collaborate: SA, SP, RTE, SSM, SASM, SDP, APM, LPM, POPM, ARCH, ASE, SGP Collaborate with stakeholders and leadership to institute ORK framework for measuring progress and effectiveness at all levels Help drive adoption of end-to-end Agile transformation strategy with Lean-Agile ways of working and SAFe as a cornerstone Advise on operating models and transformation governance Perform AgilityHealth maturity assessments & recommend strategies to address growth items Expert in coaching, training, and mentoring roles from leadership to teams on their respective functions within SAFe Act as role model embodying Agile values, principles, and demonstrating success patterns Actively facilitate and coach LPM and ART events Support Agile tooling administration, strategy, and adoption: SAFe for Enterprise, AgilityHealth, Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), etc. Help identify and coach champions within functional areas who can evangelize Agile and act as local mentors/coaches in their area Develop Lean-Agile training materials and deliver content for and to both existing teams and the onboarding of new talent Help launch and mature Communities of Practices and interaction/pollination across DT and the business Raise recurring/widely observed issues and bottlenecks to stakeholders; develops and implements comprehensive solutions. Coach organization through change, helping identify and attack organizational impediments which limit team productivity and quality Help develop and monitor metrics to track Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts Create an environment that values and promotes autonomy, skill mastery, empowerment, transparency, innovation, learning Foster a fail-safe, fail-fast environment where experiments lead to the best solution Promote lean thinking principles such as reduced cycle times, limiting work in progress, reduced batch size, understanding of flow, identification of waste/inefficiencies and leading remediation efforts.
qualifications:
- Experience level: Director
- Minimum 10 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors (required)
skills:
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).