The Agile Coach is responsible for driving the successful delivery of large-scale, complex programs across multiple teams, departments, business Units, and the organisation. It entails supervision of day to day running of scrums (almost like COO of the scrums).
He/She will work closely with product owners, scrum masters, and other stakeholders to ensure that the program meets business and technical requirements, while adhering to agile principles and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
Program Increment (PI) Planning Facilitation
- Gain an understanding of product roadmap and priorities for the team for upcoming PIs.
- Use dashboards to track, verify & report content readiness against priorities and baseline capacity of teams. Collate the dashboards across scrum teams with scrum masters for a global view of all initiatives that are under execution.
- Facilitate meetings between Product owners, scrum masters and Technology teams if required to address impediments regarding content readiness.
- Manage stakeholders outside the scrum through constant engagements and communication on status of all the initiatives.
- Facilitate the PI planning for Product Area and Technology teams on the day of PI planning.
- Support the team by resolving queries related to PI planning process or tooling.
- Participate in PI planning management reviews to ensure dependencies are being understood and resolved.
- Work with Product Owners to schedule delivery plans of initiatives across the enterprise.
- Conduct a PI Planning retrospective and record and track key actions from retro.
Support PI Execution
- Track PI progress using dashboards and help team to prepare for PI steerco.
- Lead periodic synchronization events within Product Area such as Scrum of Scrums/ART sync, iteration demos and System demos.
- Lead backlog refinement for Product area teams.
- Promote DevOps and continuous delivery.
- Coordinate planning efforts with other Product Areas teams. This entails technology capacity assessment/determination and communicating the same to product owners.
Coaching and Mentoring
- Coach the Product and Tech teams in agile and PI process.
- Help increase adoption of Scrum practices (e.g. Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP, DevOps, SAFe, LeSS etc) within organisation.
Continuous Improvement
- Seek feedback from various stakeholders in PI.
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve the process to make it lean and efficient.
- Use metrices effectively to identify trends and improvements areas and work with teams on improvements.
The Person
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following: -
- Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
- Any one qualification from the list: Any Agile or Scrum certification or SAFe® Release Train Engineer Certification (RTE) or Agile Coach certifications or Scaled Agile.
- 5 years’ relevant work experience.
- 3 years’ successful project implementation experience using Agile and Scrum methodology; with the ability to track and monitor health of a planning interval quantitatively and qualitatively.
- 2 years’ experience in coaching and mentoring teams in agile and SAFe.
- Experience in working in an Agile development environment with the ability to identify risks and issues and escalate appropriately.
- Hands-on experience of working as a Release Train Engineer or Agile coach within an organization that has 50-150 people within squad/tribes is desirable.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement/management and communication.
The above position is a demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your application must be received by Friday 31st May 2024.
Qualified candidates with a disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
