Agile Coach

Responsibilities

Ensure the right approach and outcomes for the respective initiatives under the assigned Strategic Programme Director (SPD)/Initiative Owner (IO)

Design and develop Agile processes and practices for Agile adoption across the financial institution

Work with Agile Leads and squad members to identify gaps in Agile delivery, and facilitate improvement

Implement Agile metrics for driving data driven decision making and demonstrating impact of coaching and transformation efforts

Develop hands-on workshops and brown-bags for Agile themes

Facilitate X transformation of organizational functions to enable the adoption of Agile processes and practices by the Strategic Programme squad

Main contact point for X Programme Management

Plan resources

Review progress, resolve issues, escalate as needed

Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retros, Daily Scrums.

Helping the team progress on the project by ensuring each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members progress, and protecting the team from distractions

Mediate issues within the team. A Peace-Keeper function

Requirements

Entrepreneurial

Systems-thinker

Digitally-savvy tech aficionado

Adapts to new insights and shift comfortably from concept to detailed execution

Affable with ability to communicate/work across teams/functions within tight timelines

Managing mission-critical projects with multiple dependencies

Able to engineer favourable outcomes with limited resources