Senior Specialist : Agile Coach

At Liberty, we employ more than 6,000 people across 7 businesses in 18 African countries.

Every day, our employees grow their knowledge by working with diverse groups of people who specialise in a wide range of skills across insurance, asset management, investment, and health products.

We continually seek to engage, develop, recognise and reward the people who make our business great.

Key Responsibilities

1. Provide ongoing coaching that enables the teams to excel at agile development.
2. Facilitate discussions leading to collective decision-making, goal setting, and conflict resolution.
3. Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues.
4. Coach the Product Owner and Scrum Masters to focus on delivering incremental business value while sustaining an engineering culture.
5. Facilitate cross-team meetings and help teams find innovative ways of resolving dependencies and navigating complex business and technical trade-offs.

Additional Key Responsibilities

1. Engage in problem-solving sessions with team leads on how to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps which are congruent with the Agile approach and the company strategy.
2. Conduct training sessions on the fundamentals of Agile with new team members and training SAFe to all roles.
3. Focus on business units or departments outside of traditional software development that are interested in adopting Agile principles and methods.
4. Facilitate organisation transformation relating to the new way of working across the organisation.

Minimum Qualifications

1. At least 5 years working with Agile and Scaled Agile.
2. At least 2 – 3 years playing the role of a Scrum Master.
3. Experience in coaching people on the Agile methodology.
4. Experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis.
5. Relevant Agile certification and training. Safe Program Consultants (SPC) certification is compulsory.

Liberty Group Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and the group's Transformation Strategy, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards the achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the organisation.

As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Liberty Group Limited - an Authorised Financial Services Provider in terms of the FAIS Act (Licence no ).