Agile Coach

Don’t just follow digital trends, Help create one. Focus: Helps teams apply Agile and Lean thinking to the specific environment and impediments they face. Working as an advisor the Coach can help the team adapt the methodology to their environment, and help the team challenge the existing environment. Passionate about communication, group dynamics, and not afraid to raise issues and drive change.

Organizational Context: Senior member of a Product Engineering team reporting to an Engineering leader. Coaches multiple IT and Business groups to ensure quality and timely implementation of program increment objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Live the Agile Values & Principles. Provide visibility into goals & progress towards those goals. Challenge the status quo gracefully. Coach Agile teams towards becoming high-functioning Agile teams. Create coaching plans to establish current state with a backlog of focused areas for improvement. Engage Scrum Masters and the teams’ leadership to understand, accept, and implement coaching plans.

Be coachable yourself: be open to feedback and committed to continuous personal improvement. Demonstrate being a lifelong learner. Engage with the Agile community, both within HexDigital and outside the organization. Coach Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to become more effective coaches. Experiment: take risks and be prepared to “fail fast”.

Provide 1:1 coaching to Team Members, ScrumMasters, Product Owners, RTEs, and management as needed to enable an Agile development environment. Demonstrate strong servant leadership skills. Influence decisions without formal authority. Track record in exercising independent judgment and discretion in regards to high impact decisions.

Experience championing a strong product culture - continuous and rapid testing and learning (often through failure) is paramount. Strong team player who can not only lead and facilitate collaboration but can also dive deep into product capability and functional design. Competency in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and experience launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs) a plus.

Understanding of team dynamics, with a demonstrated ability to navigate team dysfunctions (i.e. Five Dysfunctions of a Team). Offer of employment with HexDigital is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Qualifications

Significant experience in various roles in software application development. Proven experience in applying various agile methods/frameworks. Proven experience as an Agile coach. Proven experience as a Change Agent. Project Management/Engagement management experience. Previous consulting experience is a plus. Previous experience in a large scale Agile Transformation initiative is a plus.

Hands-on experience with widely successful agile techniques: user stories, ATDD, TDD, continuous integration, continuous testing, pairing, automated testing, agile games. Hands on expertise with Rally and Jira. Demonstrated/Proven ability with building and managing strong relationships. Fostering and motivating a culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience). Holds at a minimum 1 of the following recent certifications: PMI-ACP (PMI Agile). Performance Amplifiers: Growth Mindset. Collaboration & Teamwork. Learning Agility. Open Communication. Adaptability. Conflict resolution.

Servant Leadership. Continuous Improvement. Why HexDigital? Talk to our people and you’ll find out what we’re really all about. Open, creative, risk-taking, collaborative and innovative are just some of the expressions you’ll hear. It’s our culture that makes HexDigital an outstanding place to work, and a big part of why we regularly win best workplace awards all over the world including recognition amongst the World’s Best Multinational Workplaces by Great Place to Work and Glassdoor’s 2017 Best Places to Work.

If you’re ready to take on a challenge and make an impact, you owe it to yourself to launch or grow your career here. A competitive benefits offering designed to support our employees’ total health and wellbeing, including: Health care scheme Defined contribution pension plan Dental scheme Virtual GP Life assurance Income protection Core holiday allowance with opportunity to buy or sell additional days Car Allowance/Company Car Option A range of flexible benefits to choose from designed to suit your lifestyle: healthcare plan options, health assessments, critical illness coverage, cycle to work, season ticket loans Employee Discount Portal Back up childcare/adultcare Onsite facilities include; Fitness classes, Health Checks, Digital Health Kiosk, Physiotherapy, Healthy Living Nurse, Wellness Studio, Costa Coffee and subsidised staff restaurant To complete your application please click on the links below.

However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com or 00800 83 000038 (for Russia based candidates 810 800 83 000038). ReqID: 18013232 Schedule (Full-Time/Part-Time): Full-time