Agile Coach

Agile Team Coach

As an Agile Team Coach, you will work closely with individual members, whole software delivery teams, release management and business partners to ensure effective software delivery based upon defined agile value & principles. The goal of each AC is to teach, motivate, and encourage each team to self-sustainability of agile practices. The Agile Coach has worked their career in order to coach those around them to be the best possible agilists. They are also someone who leads by example and knows how to bring out the best in people.

Responsibilities in this role include providing guidance, mentoring, and coaching to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Delivery Team members, Managers, Executives, and other stakeholders within the channel or portfolio to ensure the delivery of "value at the right time in the right way.

Key responsibilities include:

• Training Agile teams on Agile Frameworks specific to including: Scrum, Kanban.
• Utilizing Agile techniques to help the business build product backlogs, prioritize them, and drive value for Agile Delivery Teams.
• Coaching Agile teams and requisite business partners on transparency, empowerment, ethics, self-organization and responsive action.
• Guiding the team to improve their ability to be predictive using right estimation and capacity planning techniques.
• Embedding a culture of continuous improvement within the Agile team.

Qualifications:

Required skills include facilitation, the art of conducting workshops, retrospectives, assessments, building relationships between multiple stakeholders and team members, and training ability to create and delivery training sessions.

Techniques include conflict management, story mapping, estimation, prioritization, retrospective, and team level agile metrics. Informed on TDD, Automation, BDD, CICD, modern engineering practices, and hands on coaching experience with Agile teams (Scrum and Kanban).

We are looking for a minimum of 7 years in software delivery, with at least 2 years as an Agile Coach. Experience in migrating and coaching a team from traditional waterfall delivery to Agile ways of working, visioning, road-mapping, release planning, iterative planning/continuous planning (Scrum/Kanban events) with Agile teams is required.

Certified in one or more of the following a plus: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP), or other related agile certifications from a reputable organization. 3-5 years of experience with one or more Agile development methodologies (i.e. Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, etc.) Experience in product development.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. NLB is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact HR department by sending an e-mail to View email address on click.appcast.io.