Agile Coach - Pays up to $210,000/yr

$210,000 - $210,000/Yr

Unclassified - San Diego, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Diego, CA

About the position

The Agile Coach will lead and guide multiple Scrum teams in their Agile/Scrum journey, focusing on coaching and mentoring project teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, stakeholders, and organizational leaders to achieve overall transformation to agility.

Responsibilities

• Partners with other Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters across the organization
• Trains new Development teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners in Agile values, principles, practices and Scrum framework
• Responsible for the growth of new and existing Scrum Masters
• Mentors and guides multiple teams on a day-to-day basis
• Helps identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and works with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them
• Organizes workshops that help promote Agile maturity across the organization
• Communicates well with teams and leaders of the organization, good listening skills, asking questions and giving feedback
• Ensures Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, being a voice of reason and authority
• Enthusiastic and maintains a positive, high-energy attitude
• Continually grows his/her craft learning new tools and techniques
• Able to handle conflict resolution well, facilitating discussion and alternatives of different approaches
• Works with teams to achieve self-organization team accountability
• Works with teams on how to identify and burn down technical debt
• Brings disclosure and transparency to the business and grows business trust

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience as an Agile Coach for software development teams
• Experience in code refactoring, simple design principles and continuous integration
• Experience in training, coaching and mentoring new Agile/Scrum teams
• Experience in creating Agile training/workshop material
• Experience working with large, small, remote and collocated Scrum teams
• In-depth understanding of Agile values, principles and the Scrum framework
• Understand fundamentals of iterative & incremental development
• Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
• Experience with JIRA/GreenHopper (i.e. Jira Agile) is a plus