Agile Coach

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Agile Coach for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Dallas, TX. Responsibilities :

• Designs and delivers transformational agile training to teams, scrum masters, product owners, and functional managers.
• Delivers hands-on coaching for individual teams in all aspects of scrum, Kanban, or other agile methods including roles & responsibilities, daily meetings, planning at different levels, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, and metrics that aid continuous improvement.
• Shadows roles on the ITS Delivery teams to facilitate learning through immersion.
• Coaches teams in project initiation, organization, and goal and change management aspects of agile.
• Assesses teams against Agile best practices and provides recommendations to senior leadership.
• Develops, tracks, and communicates agile adoption and progress metrics at team and organizational levels.
• Analyzes metrics and progress to make recommendations to mediate risks.
• Discovers opportunities to champion agile values, principles and adoption across the organization.
• Called upon to work as a Scrum Master who plans, leads, organizes, and motivates ITS Delivery teams of the highest levels of complexity, organizational importance and visibility.
• Coaches executives, senior leadership, and business partners on agile/lean and their roles in Agile transformation.
• Partners with senior leadership to ensure organizational alignment with agile frameworks.
• Supports implementation of scaling frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, DaD, etc.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, or management-related field of study is required
• Minimum experience required of the position:
• Professional experience that includes at least 5+ years in a scrum master position and 1+ years as an Agile Coach
• Excellent leadership skills to lead and influence a high-performing product team by providing coaching and support, and apply risk management discipline to mitigate risks and remove impediments effectively
• Broad knowledge pertaining to Scaled Agile practices (SAFe) and methodology, and software development life cycle
• Excellent listening, and oral and written communication skills tailored for the intended audience
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, cross-functional team members and customers
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required

• Any other Agile related certification is a plus