Sr. Agile Coach

The Agile Enablement team is looking for a Sr. Agile Coach to help drive Agile delivery excellence across the enterprise. In this role, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, programs, and teams while providing hands-on coaching to strengthen Agile practices, improve delivery outcomes, and advance organizational maturity. You'll evangelize Agile values and frameworks, help teams understand the "why" behind Agile ways of working, and support consistent adoption of tools and practices such as Azure DevOps and Program/Planning Interval Planning. Working across cross-functional teams, you'll play a key role in enabling scalable, standardized Agile execution that improves alignment, mitigates risk, and increases business value delivery.

Note:

• Sponsorship is not available for this role.
  
• Travel to Chattanooga, TN is expected approximately 2 - 3 times a year.
  
  
• Preference will be given to candidates within a 2 - 3 hour driving range of Chattanooga, TN.
  
  
• While this is a remote, work from home position, the final round of interviews will take place onsite in our Chattanooga, TN office.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

• Be an enterprise evangelist of agile ceremonies, practices and values.
• Understand and champion the scope of Agile transformations and participate in standardization of Agile processes and best practices in the enterprise.
• Articulate and convey the purpose of Agile Practices (i.e. answer the question "why do we do it this way") and provide maturity assessments.
• Coach teams and programs in providing business value through effective Agile product management and delivery.
• Provide role-based coaching on Agile ceremonies, practices, values, and role responsibilities.

Job Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent experience is defined as 4 years of professional work experience in a corporate environment

Experience

• 5 years - Experience in IT
• 2 years - Agile Coaching experience required.

Skills/Certifications

• One or more Agile Certifications (e.g., CSM, CSPO, CSP, PSM, PSPO, SAFe)
• Demonstrated presentation and team facilitation skills
• Exceptional writing and editorial skills

Number of Openings Available
1

Worker Type:
Employee

Company:
BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

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