Senior Agile Coach
Quast Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Home Office (Digital) are seeking a Senior Agile Coach to join their team in Manchester. This role is home working for the time being but candidate will be based at Soapworks, Manchester once offices open.
Team: HOME OFFICE|Digital Data and Technology|CTO Function
Initial contracts will run for 6 months and offer a rate up to 800/day.
IR35 STATUS: Inside IR35. This engagement has been assessed by the public body as Inside IR35 legislation. Candidates would be required to operate through an umbrella company on this engagement.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 09/04/2021 at 14:00
This role requires SC (Security Check) clearance. Applicants require active SC clearance or the willingness/eligibility to go through clearance before starting on site. Candidates with current clearance will be preferred.
Main Responsibilities
- The Agile Coach must educate employees at all levels, including senior on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work. They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization/portfolio-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
- As a mentor, the Agile Coach is responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions. They provide hands-on support to all employees, especially delivery managers, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall portfolio growth and improvement.
- The Agile Coach is responsible for designing a strategy for the organizational adoption of Agile. This includes every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.
Deliverables
- Helps define and ensure consistent agile standards and best practises been adopted throughout the portfolio
- Helping team to choose the right method based on the product i.e. XP, Kanban etc
- Support for those teams in moving to a Product-Centric delivery model
- Collaborates on the creation and evolution of the Agile transformation roadmap and owns driving activities across the organization
- Supports development and monitoring of Agile adoption/maturity metrics to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts and to gauge the maturity progress of new and existing teams
- Participates, organizes, facilitates communities of practice to help foster lean and agile thinking. Mentors Agile delivery teams, their coaches, stakeholders and leaders to help them adopt the mindset and practices needed to transform the organization
- Advances best practices for scaling and optimizing the agile practice as the portfolio grows.
- Ensure framework been created based on Product needs that could be used in future
Skills and Experience
- Significant experience in agile delivery methods as well as coaching skills.
- Proven history of working with teams who aren’t product centric and success at maturing them.
- Proven history of implementing scaled agile framework
- Additionally, experience in working with senior stakeholders to gain their support for agile methodologies
- Successfully transitioning teams within large organization with similar risk appetite as Home Office (experience within Financial sector, insurance sector can be counted)
- Certification on Scrum methodologies
- Knowledge and experience in two or more Agile or Lean frameworks Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, XP
Candidate Eligibility
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 General visas are cannot be accepted. This role requires that candidates be willing to undergo BPSS (DS) Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland).
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