Agile Coach

Must have active agile coach certfication

Responsibilities:

• Effect change by acting as a guide for agile teams and programs during GFT s multi-year agile transformation Partner with stakeholders, existing Agile Coaches, and functional leaders define and execute upon strategies for adopting agile ways of working
• Perform hands-on coaching activities for your teams and programs, including but not limited to:
• Advise leaders on how to organize, mobilize, and launch agile teams.
• Influence process execution by guiding product owners and mentoring team members, Drive continuous process improvement strategies enabling efficient, effective, sustainable and measurable delivery
• Understanding of Citi s risk goal to coach teams to reduce through test automation, minimizing technical debt and increasing quality
• Report on patterns and anti-patterns in intra-team agile dynamics:
• Identify patterns for reinforcement and opportunities for team growth.
• Establish feedback loops enabling trust, psychological safety, transparency and customer feedback
• Design and lead workshops on the pragmatics of Lean-Agile values, principles, and practices
• Collaborate with our client organizations to adopt sustainable Lean-Agile capabilities and processes
• Coach and mentor more junior colleagues in agile values and principles.

Qualifications :

• 10+ years working in an agile culture with deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban and Lean Agile frameworks
• 7+ years working in an agile environment as a coach
• 7+ years working in an agile environment as a Product Owner or Scrum Master Demonstrated experience coaching at least 2 agile teams concurrently, through a multiyear agile transformation
• Experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformation with demonstrated experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other scaling frameworks and deep understanding of agile values and principles
• Demonstrated experience facilitating collaborative sessions, managing customer expectations, and ensuring work is aligned with the enterprise goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated experience in coaching to common practices to reduce risk with a deep understanding of compliance requirements for a bank
• Understanding of the technical enablers of agile delivery and how they operate within an agile organization (e.g., CICD, DevSecOps)
• Expertise with agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams, or similar agile management tooling
• Experience with agile testing and technical engineering techniques (TDD, BDD) and DevSecOps tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• A passion for learning new technologies, and a desire for personal growth, through self-study, formal classes, or on-the-job training
• Active leadership in the agile community

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Scrum Master, and Product Owner certification
• Agile Coach certifications