Remote Agile Coach - Lead Lean Delivery and Change

nationwideitservices

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 215,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Commuter benefits

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Educational reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Nationwide IT Services (NIS) is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to help delivery teams adopt agile practices and support organizational change in digital service delivery. This fully remote role coaches teams and stakeholders, establishes agile portfolio processes, and builds an agile culture using lean and agile methodologies.

The coach strengthens coordination, governance, and visibility into delivery progress while developing staff members’ ability to coach others.

Qualifications

Five years of relevant agile coaching experience.
Experience enabling agile delivery and portfolio processes.
Ability to coach and mentor teams and stakeholders, facilitate workshops, develop staff coaching capabilities.
Experience supporting delivery metrics, status visibility, governance.
Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Enable delivery teams to adopt agile practices and perform development activities.
Establish processes for managing a portfolio of work using agile approaches.
Drive strategic organizational change to support adoption of agile techniques.
Embed an agile culture using techniques from a range of agile and lean methodologies and frameworks.
Use coaching, advising, workshops, and mentoring to help teams and stakeholders apply relevant tools and techniques.
Enable stakeholders to access accurate, current project and program status without disrupting delivery teams.
Apply appropriate tools and techniques to team roles, behaviors, structure, culture, agile ceremonies and practices, and knowledge transfer and sharing.
Support program management, cross-team coordination, and governance of digital service delivery.
Ensure that key metrics and requirements supporting teams and delivery are well defined and maintained.
Equip staff with the skills and ability to coach others.
When assigned at the organizational level, coach executives on the fundamental considerations of digital service delivery design.