Job Description:
Optomi, in partnership with one of our premier clients, is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to join their team!This candidate provides leadership and coaching to delivery teams using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and other Agile techniques and coordinates and facilitates Agile Release Train (ART) and Scrum events, such as the Program Increment (PI) Planning Event, and acts as the next level escalation for obstacles reported by the individual Development Team members.
Responsibilities:
- Act as an agile leader and coach for one or more medium or large sized teams of moderate to high complexity, generally ranging in size from 50 - 125 individuals
- Coach senior IT leaders through definition, planning, and execution of departmental agile transformation efforts
- Participate in, facilitate, and lead program and team level planning, execution and continuous improvement
- Accountable for delivery of moderate to large programs across the entire application lifecycle, aligned with an Agile methodology
- Facilitate the creation and maintenance of Product Vision and Roadmaps to enable teams to align execution to business value
- Work with senior leadership to report status, escalate and resolve issues, and communicate changes in scope or execution
- Work with Product Manager / Owner and Development Teams to facilitate the refinement, estimation, planning, and execution of features and stories in alignment with Agile Best Practices
- Drives continuous improvement on agile teams, programs, and departments using techniques such as Inspect & Adapt, Retrospectives, and Root Cause Analysis
Requirements:
- Strong command of Scrum, Agile values and principles, and SAFe
- Deep understanding of SDLC, Project Management and Software Delivery
- Experience with end to end software development and delivery process
- Knowledge of modern Agile development techniques such as DevOps, test driven development, and test automation
- Experience with Agile project management software
- Understanding and ability to execute and coach at the team and program levels of SAFe: e.g. RTE, Product Management, System Architect
- SAFe SASM, CSP, PSC or other advanced Agile certification