Description

• Embrace the agile mindset, advocate and champion agile across the Technology organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using agile principles.
• Provide creative solutions to agile transformation issues: resistance to change, limited resources, conflicting priorities, lack of accountability.
• Ability to utilize agile methods in a flexible manner that often includes traditional project management which can include hard deadlines/fixed dates at times.
• Understand the various agile frameworks, events and artifacts (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), where they are fit for purpose and how to implement/apply with new and existing teams.
• Manage and facilitate team event including quarterly product planning, product owner syncs, backlog refinement, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, standups and retrospectives.
• Facilitate and coach to draft, track progress and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs).
• Coach teams and leaders in agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities, and frameworks.
• Foster a continuous improvement environment to build high-performing, agile teams.
• Track and report on metrics for teams to measure progress, effectiveness of agile adoption, and agile maturity of the teams.
• Guide product management teams in their role, defining MVPs, developing product charters, product community maps, product roadmaps and release plans, story mapping, writing stories and backlog prioritization and management.
• Train and mentor other Agilists on the role of the Agilist and participate in communities of practice for Agilists to share, learn and grow.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience

- Five or more years of experience in Agile technology delivery

- Five or more years of experience in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams

Preferred Skills/Experience

- Strong knowledge of Agile values, principles, and practices and Scaled Agile frameworks

- Ability to drive delivery and take initiative

- Excellent interpersonal skills (communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution)

- Experience as an Agilist managing multiple teams simultaneously

- Experience with agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Dragonboat, MURAL

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or similar certification a plus

- Experience with distributed teams, in multiple time zones

- Demonstrated ability to partner and communicate effectively with non-technical team members, resolving contradictory objectives, and unifying teams

- Possess the ability to influence others, implement change, and standardize processes in a complex business environment

- A passion for mentoring and growing the potential of others

- Great teammate - should be ready to go beyond to help the immediate team and do not be averse to not shy away from asking for help if needed

- Demonstrated growth mindset

- Positive attitude and ability to inspire the team toward continuous improvement

- Experience with outcomes-based planning and delivery (i.e., OKR)

- Ability to partner with Product, Tech, UX and other disciplines

- Experience with Product Discovery tactics

- Direct experience with big room / quarterly product planning and cross-team coordination

- Understanding fundamentals of iterative and incremental development

- Experience successfully delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule

- Ability to work in ambiguity and iterate to a solution – can estimate and solve basic business problems without explicit direction

- Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change and evolve

- Demonstrated program-level collaboration and system architecture understanding

- Experience in business analysis, product management or product development

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree