Senior Agile Coach -- Boston,MA -- 6+ Months -- GC OR CITIZENS LOCAL TO BOSTON,MA

Hi,

Please review the following requirement and let me know if you have any consultants.

 

Location: Boston,MA

Duration: 6+ Months

Description:

The ideal candidate will have a track record of successfully helping organizations transform and a strong background in software development lifecycles.

 

Additionally, the ideal candidate will be a seasoned, mature, and organizationally savvy leader with a broad understanding how to effectively facilitate change an organization.  The candidate must be an excellent listener, possess outstanding facilitation and conflict-resolution skills, the ability to work in collaborative environments, and have an energetic, self-motivated, value-driven and customer-focused mindset.

 

Primary Responsibilities

• Coach, mentor, and advise technology, business, and management teams in applying Agile values, principles, frameworks, and approaches.
• Develop and conduct training sessions and workshops to further support agile adoption.
• Coach, mentor, and guide teams in Agile release planning, kickoff, and sprint planning events.
• Coach and mentor teams in creating, managing, and using product backlogs, identifying project interdependencies, and delivering value using doneness and acceptance criteria.
• Encourage and promote established engineering practices like unit testing, pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous integration.
• Encourage and promote engineering practices that lead to an appropriate level of quality; foster learning and use of automated testing.
• Guide Scrum Masters in facilitating Scrum events and activities (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog refinement, release planning).
• Develop Scrum Master and Product Owner skills in team members. 
• Guide teams in using and sharing data to improve outcomes, delivery, and organizational support.
• Guide teams in removing impediments, finding agreement, and resolving conflicts; promote continuous improvement and continuous transparency throughout delivery cycles.
• Assist teams in effective use of JIRA and Confluence for sharing delivery data and progress across locations and time.    

 

Required Experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in training, mentoring, and coaching teams in adopting and maintaining an Agile mindset, with deep experience in employing Scrum, Kanban, and modern engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, leading complex multiple technology programs/projects using Scrum; experience with other Agile approaches.
• Experience using tools like Jira, Version One, or Rally (CA Agile Central).
• Experience coaching geographically dispersed teams across multiple time zones.
• 15+ years of IT experience, with end-to-end experience on large-scale systems development projects and process improvements efforts.

Preferred Experience

• Experience delivering and supporting IT projects in the financial/investment domain.

 

 

Thanks & Regards

Chowdary
Resource Manager
237 LaidLaw Avenue,
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Phone: 201-685-8165, 201-685-8730
Email:  chowdary@philinfosys.com

www.philinfosys.com

 

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