Agile Coach

HexDigital is looking for seasoned Agile Coaches! 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 team's 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).

Qualifications

10 years of experience in various roles in Software Application Development. 5 years of experience in applying various Agile methods/frameworks. 3 years of experience in Agile coaching. 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 Masters 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 Employment eligibility to work with HexDigital in the U.

S. is required as the company will not pursue Visa sponsorship for these positions. ReqID: 18013235 Schedule (Full-Time/Part-Time): Full-time