Agile Champion

Position: Agile Champion

Location: Phoenix, AZ

An Agile Champion is a facilitator for Engineering teams, advocating, and executing Agile practices to support incremental delivery of prioritized work and value to end users. An Agile Champion works with the Product Owner and Engineering in adopting Agile principles and values, removing impediments, and supporting an environment of continuous improvement.

Facilitates Agile events that help the Engineering team deliver value incrementally and iteratively

Supports the Program Increment (PI) execution through facilitating team level events and partners with the RTE.

Supports the team in achieving the PI objectives

Supports Product Owners through backlog refinement, backlog readiness, definition of ready/done and support writing user stories.

Supports coordination across Team of Teams (Agile Release Train (ART)/Release Train Engineer (RTE)).

Supports, monitors, and provides visibility around gaps, impediments, risks, and dependencies.

Fosters practices for identifying, tracking, discussing and resolving cross-team dependencies within the team, taking ownership of a dependency in some circumstances.

Manages and organizes delivery

Works in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to manage and prioritize the product backlog.

Supporting processes to track iteration progress, issue resolution, and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met, escalate to leadership as necessary

Ensures adherence to the Technology SDLC process, Agile values, principles, and practices, and actively encourages teams to reflect and improve.

Good understanding of technology solutions

Strong technical acumen

Leadership & Coaching

Understand and demonstrate the Agile at Scale Values and Principles.

Encourage diversity of thought and demonstrate an open mindset.

Foster a culture of trust and leadership in others.

Supports a learning culture to drive continuous improvements and standardization.

Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo.

Supports collaboration and quality practices between Agile and product teams.

Education & Experience

Bachelor s degree in technology related discipline or equivalent experience essential

Up to 4 years of relevant experience with a demonstrated record of accomplishment of growing responsibility.

Experience participating in Agile, Scrum, SAFE or other rapid application development teams is essential.

Experience with Agile Management tools like JIRA / Rally