What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Coach position at Expleo?
Overview
Trissential is a trusted partner for end-to-end quality services and management consulting. As a part of our parent company Expleo, we have a footprint in 30 countries. Our Mission is to have a positive impact on every person who interacts with Trissential. Clients love us because we are service focused. Employees love us because they are valued and cared for.
Come join an experience. Add your talent to a team of forward-thinking game changers that make an impact by driving innovative solutions.
Trissential is currently seeking a Scrum Master to coach, facilitate, train, and mentor cross functional IT and business teams on a enterprise wide scaled agile transformation in Milwaukee, WI.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and organize all Scrum activities including daily Scrum meetings, sprint and release planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Guide and coach the team on Scrum and Agile practices to improve overall velocity and achieve objectives.
- Coordinate the resolution of impediments across organizational boundaries.
- Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.
- Assess agile maturity of the team; Coach project team to reach higher levels of maturity through continuous improvement.
- Build and maintain release burn downs, velocity projections and project forecasts for project visibility and to ensure timely decision-making.
- Work with Product Owner to document acceptance criteria, perform backlog grooming, and prioritize features/user stories.
- Foster an agile mindset within individuals, teams, and organizations to help them better meet their goals.
- Coach across different stages of an organization’s agile journey, from introductory training and coaching to continuously improving high-performing teams.
- Coach at varying levels of scale, from embedding within a single team to creating cohesion and alignment across an entire organization.
- Work across the organization to help design and implement an effective Agile Transition for the business
- Responsible for mentoring/coaching IT and business teams in a collaborative environment focused on achieving the effective Agile Transition.
- Spinning up new teams and putting structures in place to assure their success
- Agnostic approach to lean and Agile frameworks, helping teams to choose their ways of working based on their environment and challenges
- Implement effective governance, escalation and reporting
- Recommend improvements and drive adoption of best practices
Skills
- Executive level presence and communication skills
- Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
- Design Thinking
- Thorough understanding of agile principles, values and processes
- Experience working at an organizational level to define what Agile means for the Enterprise
- High emotional intelligence and mature soft skills
- Ability to work with strong stakeholders and to demonstrate strength and certainty to them
Experience
Must Have:
- 5 years experience of working in Agile environments
- Agile/scrum/waterfall methodologies development and large scale program management
- Coaching team members and partners on agile and scrum methodology
- Working with enterprise architecture environments
- Gathering requirements and developing scope, artifacts, and roadmaps
- Managing ways of working across internal and external teams.
