Agile Coach

Education Jobs NJ; Weehawken (NJ); On-site; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Education Jobs NJ in Weehawken, NJ seeks an Agile Coach on a contract basis. You will coach teams on Scrum and agile practices, mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and management, and drive release planning, ceremonies, and CI/CD improvements.

You will onboard groups into transformation and evangelize agile culture to maximize outcomes. You will collaborate with the Agile COE and line-of-business groups, facilitating resources, aligning needs, and guiding ongoing process improvements across

Qualifications

• Proven experience coaching agile teams and implementing Scrum/SAFe.
• Strong facilitation and mentoring across roles.
• Ability to onboard groups into transformation and align with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide Agile coaching to teams on Scrum and project management.
• Coach and mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile teams and management to enhance release planning and ceremonies.
• Transfer knowledge and help teams reflect and improve for better collaboration and quality.
• Lead relationships between business groups and the Agile COE and coordinate with resources.
• Onboard new groups into the transformation process with overview presentations.
• Introduce agile methodologies and implement agility in delivery using SAFe and Scrum.
• Advocate for top-down support for agile culture and values to maximize results.
• Share experiences to ensure best practices are used and suggest process improvements.
• Oversee objective cohesion of multi-team initiatives and monitor performance.
• Assess trends and implications of new methods for business strategy.

Skills

Agile coaching

Scrum

SAFe

Facilitation

Mentoring

Release planning

CI/CD practices

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Title: Agile Coach

Location: Weehawken NJ (Day 1 Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

• Provide Agile coaching to teams on all aspects of the project management framework, with a strong focus on Scrum practices.
• Coaching and mentoring Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile teams and management to enhance release planning, agile ceremonies, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
• Transferring knowledge and helping teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing the outcome, collaboration, and quality practices.
• Lead the overall relationship between lines of business (LOB) or groups and the Agile COE (and other resources supporting Agile Transformation), relationship building, business development, facilitation of expert resources and alignment with team / leadership needs.
• Onboard new groups or LOBs into the transformation process, provide overview presentation and evangelize agile practices.
• Introduce agile methodologies and implement agility in the project delivery processes using SAFe and Scrum.
• Continue to evangelize the need for top-down support for agile culture and values in order to achieve maximum results from the use of agile practices.
• Demonstrates and shares experiences and observations with all team members and to ensure best practices are being used and recommends process improvement.
• Oversees the overall objective cohesion of initiatives involving many scrum teams and leads initiative performance.
• Assesses emerging trends/best practices and determines implications of proposed methodologies on meeting business unit strategy.