Agile Coach

Job Title: Agile Transformation Lead/Senior Agile Coach

Location: Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid - 3 days onsite and 2 days remote)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract (Possibility of extension)

Years of Experience: 12+ years

Mandatory Skill required - Agile Transformation

Your responsibilities in this role will include:

• Lead Agile adoption, enablement, transformation, @Scale (multiple teams, programs, large solutions) size of 150/200+; current ways-of-working assessment, gap analysis, transformation backlog and roadmap.
• Create / re-configure team topologies and organization for agile ways-of-working alignment.
• Conduct agile maturity assessments, and continually review and ensure teams improvement can be measured.
• Coach Agile Teams, SMs, POs, and Program / Product Managers on Lean-Agile culture, mindset, principles, practices and ways of working.
• Drive (or part of Transformation team) org level Transformation & Change, with Leadership / Senior Management; experience with Org. Change Management frameworks, such as Prosci, Kotter, ADKAR, etc., will be an advantage.
• Facilitate team and program (@Scale) level Agile events/ceremonies (including PI planning and ART events), and maintain artifacts (Program and Team Boards)
• Implement agile scaling frameworks - SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, DAD, Nexus, etc., or a contextualized framework as needed.
• Build high-performance teams, including conflict management, team dysfunctions, etc.
• Lead/facilitate agile planning, estimation, and sizing at team and program levels.
• Be part of Value Stream-related activities - Value Stream identification, mapping, analysis, etc.
• Conduct agile training and certification; workshops, boot camps etc. for varied topics.
• Lead / be part of the solution team for POVs, RFPs, and RFXs; for agile dev. services solutions.
• Co-facilitate (with SMEs) tech excellence related to DevOps, Continuous Delivery, CI-CD, Testing (automation) and Tech pipelines.
• Mentor and guide usage of Agile-related metrics at the team, program, and product levels; boards (Scrum, Kanban, Program) and create contextualized reports/dashboards; drive agile-related governance.
• Create Business Cases, work on Lean budgeting/costing/finance, and funding Value Stream practices at the program and portfolio level.
• Use ALM tools across teams and program/product management and collaboration, such as - ADO Boards, Jira, Jira Align, Digital.ai Agility (VersionOne), Rally, Teams, digital Whiteboards, MS Office/360, etc.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Certified in at least one agile scaling framework - SAFe, Scrum@Scale, etc. - SAFe-SPC, SAFe-RTE, Scrum@Scale Practitioner, or an equivalent.
• Certified in Agile Coaching - ICAgile, Scrum Alliance, or an equivalent.
• Certified in Scrum and/or Kanban - CSM, SAFe-SM, PSP, or an equivalent.
• Experience playing the role of an Agile Coach and Scrum Master for at least 3-5 years each.
• Have been part of or led Agile / Transformation Office and have been a key member of led Agile transformations @Scale.
• Have been part of led Agile CoEs and/or CoPs.
• Extensive experience in SDLC, and IT project/program/delivery management.
• Experience in PO and Product Management agile practices, including but not limited to backlog maintenance (Epic, Feature, Story), value delivery and measurement, and converting user needs into Features and Stories.
• Extensive usage of Agile-related metrics at the team, program, and product levels; usage of Scrum, Kanban, Program, and other boards.
• Strong hands-on usage of ALM tools across teams and program/product management and collaboration, such as - ADO Boards, Jira, Jira Align, Digital.ai Agility (VersionOne), Rally, Clarity, ServiceNow, Teams, Slack, Miro, Mural, digital Whiteboards, MS Office/360.
• PPM tools experience will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
• Can engage with leadership, CXOs, senior management, their agile coaches, and senior agile practitioners.
• Represent the organization in internal and external agile forums.
• The ability to demonstrate thought leadership will be an added advantage.
• Exhibits and can coach on lean-agile leadership; embrace agile values and principles.
• Demonstrates strong retrospection, inspection, and adaptation behavior.
• Demonstrates Project to Product mindset and ways of working.

e-mail: sweety.s@radiansys.com