Agile Coach

USDC•Pennington, NJ

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking an Agile Coach for a Hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution in Pennington, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. The role is responsible for enabling over 20 teams on a large Enterprise Agile Release Train of approximately 250 people to learn, implement, and mature Lean-Agile principles and practices. The ideal candidate will be focused on serving the needs of the train to drive performance and growth by coordinating and facilitating ART ceremonies, managing dependencies, and providing visibility into the health of epic and feature delivery.

Requirements

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certified with 5–7 years prior Lean Agile Release Train experience
5-7 years of experience as an Agile Coach in a Financial Enterprise
3–5 years of experience coaching software-delivery teams to analyze performance metrics, address delivery constraints, and improve speed and quality
Proficiency in JIRA
Experienced in working with geographically distributed teams
Proficient knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework and ability to ensure the program and portfolio level stakeholders adopt these practices

Nice To Haves

Adept at Agile Work Management tools such as JIRA
Experience providing leadership skills for driving an Agile Release Train (ART) using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Expert facilitator – will be responsible for facilitating feature refinement, prioritization, other ART ceremonies and Team level ceremonies
Prior experience in leading all SAFe ceremonies: Program Increment (PI) planning, Scrum of Scrums (SoS), ART Sync meetings, Solution Demos and Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshops
Capability and mindset to be a servant leader of a Release Train and responsible for listening to and removing impediments for geographically distributed scrum teams
Experience as a Coach working with multiple teams

Responsibilities

Guide and coach the teams on the Agile Release Train on Scrum practices, and develop their understanding of Agile principles
Help define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce the agreements
Coordinate and facilitate ART ceremonies (for example, Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, and Retrospective
In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensure the program has a healthy product/program backlog
Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments
Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities
Drive measurable improvements in software delivery speed and quality by coaching teams to analyze established efficiency metrics, identify root causes, and implement targeted process and engineering improvements
Mentor more junior Scrum Masters
Provide guidance about how to create and manage an intake process, healthy backlog, and how to facilitate valuable Agile ceremonies
Help align teams to enterprise Agile standards and practices, and coach team members through change

Benefits

Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
Behavioral Health Platform
Medical, Dental, Vision
Health Savings Account
Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
Voluntary Term Life Insurance
401K
Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)