Agile Coach

Aviva; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Aviva as an Agile Coach, where you will lead and coach teams to adopt Agile values and practices. You will develop the Agile Roadmap, manage services, and enhance the delivery team's performance. A competitive compensation package and career development opportunities await you.

Benefits

Base compensation and annual bonus eligibility

Retirement savings and share plan

Health and wellness benefits

Competitive vacation package

Employee inclusion programs

Hybrid flexible work model

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in delivering Agile solutions.
• Expert understanding of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum.
• Ideally, business knowledge in Insurance or Financial Services.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to setting the Agile Roadmap and drives execution.
• Hires and develops Scrum Masters.
• Actively coaches and trains key Agile roles in delivery.

Skills

Agile values and principles

Stakeholder management

Team motivation

Self-motivation

Education

CSM certification

PSM certification

SAFe certification (preferred)

Job description

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

The Agile Coach is a servant leader, coach, and guide that ensures the delivery teams within Aviva live the Agile values, principles, and practices so that they team can achieve delivery excellence, high satisfaction in their work, and a motivating work environment.

Come join our team!

What you’ll do:

• Contributes to setting the roadmap and vision for the development of the Agile Roadmap within Aviva and drives execution of committed Roadmap milestones

• Hires, manages, coaches and develops a team of Scrum Masters, including taking hiring versus outsourcing decisions and assessing theperformance of external Scrum Masters.

• Assesses the maturity of product owners and other key Agile roles, identifies gaps and helps closing gaps through targeted training, coaching and hands-on tooling

• Anticipates demands for Agile key roles within the transformation portfolio and works with stakeholders incl. IT, Business and Transformation Management Office (TMO) to develop approaches to fill supply gaps

• Actively coaches and trains Scrum Masters, Product Owners and, as applicable, other key roles in Agile delivery. This will include key responsibilities ways of Agile working and Agile ceremonies, tools and templates support.

• Contributes to defining and implementing approaches to scale Agile across the transformation portfolio

• Advises and leadsselected Agile delivery teams within Aviva on Agile set-up, practices, process, and overall approach to executing quickly and with quality

• Work with key stakeholders within TMO, IT and the business to define key Agile metrics aimed at enabling forecasting/predictability of delivery. Works with the Agile delivery teams to capture the agreed-on metrics, address data shortcomings and provide reliable progress reports across the transformation portfolio

• Work with stakeholders within TMO to augment ACF (Aviva Change Framework) artefacts with Agile metrics and tools

• Actively drives Agile maturity assessments and health checks across the transformation portfolio

• Owns and develop key onboarding material for transformation initiatives

• Coaches, mentors, and trains Aviva delivery teams members on industry leading Agile, Scrum, and Kanban processes; motivates and supports the team by answering general questions and providing guidance

• Consolidates learnings, approaches, best practices across the Agile initiatives, shares them out within the wider Aviva Agile community and actively conducts knowledge-sharing events

• Represents Aviva at key Agile industry events and communities of practice

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years’ experience in delivering Agile solutions as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner or equivalent, leading 3-5 teams.

• An expert understanding of Agile values and principles.

• Profoundknowledge of a range of Agile frameworks, with a focus on Scrum.

• Ideally, Insurance or Financial Services business knowledge.

• Good stakeholder management skills and an ability to inspire individuals and teams to change and improve.

• Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques and software development processes:

• Self-motivation and willingness to learn and explore new ideas.

• Certifications in CSM, PSM, is a must – in addition, certification in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) preferred.

What you’ll get:

• Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

• Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

• We’ll support your professional development education.

• Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

• Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

• Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

• Hybrid flexible work model

Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is a new position which has been posted both internally & externally.

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