Agile Coach

Optomi - Dallas, TX

Full-time

Dallas, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Agile Coach will play a pivotal role in driving organizational transformation towards agility by coaching and mentoring at all levels. This position focuses on promoting agile methodologies and practices, serving as a servant leader, and facilitating the adoption of agile ways of working throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile teams, and management to enhance agile/lean practices, release planning, Agile ceremonies, Kanban, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices.
• Assess scrum maturity of the organization, conduct assessments, and identify how individual scrum teams can increase their agile maturity level.
• Teach agile techniques and concepts as needed to the larger organization.
• Facilitate Scrum events and activities as necessary and ensure the team is realizing value from them (including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement).
• Work with the Product Owner to define the product by identifying requirements and thinking critically about what will make it successful.
• Work collaboratively with the Enterprise development team, Technical lead, and management to determine technical direction and priority of staff for the supporting systems.
• Remove impediments that are preventing the team from accomplishing their goals.
• Help the team learn to identify dependencies, skill/knowledge gaps, and other impediments for their work.

Requirements

• Scrum Master Certification or SAFe Agilist is required.
• PMI-ACP certification is a plus.
• Experience in coaching at large organizations.
• Five or more years of experience as an Agile Coach.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Deep understanding of SAFe and Agile with hands-on experience in Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and/or eXtreme Programming.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Must have working knowledge of Agile at Scale concepts such as SCRUM of SCRUMS, Agile Risk Management.