Agile Coach

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Join us as an Agile Coach - Systems Change PMO

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting an Agile Coach to join our Systems Change PMO.  In this role you will work as part of a dynamic and growing team responsible for delivering all IT project services for a demanding business. This position will be a critical part of an enterprise effort to improve development efficiency across departments and locations.

Some of your key responsibilities include:  

• Popularize agile values and principles within the organization - work with executives, leaders and teams on implementing agile practices
• Deliver training and coaching for product owners, scrum masters and project teams in Scrum, Kanban, Lean and scaled agile practices
• Contribute to improvements and standardization of an enterprise SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) program and continuously improve agile guidance and training materials
• Help introduce metrics to identify roadblocks and impediments in the development process and support teams in improving their efficiency
• Encourage active participation and coordinate efforts of agile community of practice to share knowledge, experiences and exchange best practices that would help teams work smarter, increase transparency and improve business outcomes
• Support agile adoption within BBH development teams - work with project teams to analyze current portfolio and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices and then guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed
• Help to design and further drive the organization-wide agile adoption strategy and rollout plans
• Occasional travel between global offices may be required

What we offer:
 

• Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office /2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years
• To encourage cultural awareness and philanthropy, BBHers have 1 Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance
• Task based working system
• 24 days of occasional remote work from Poland during a calendar year
• Contracts for an indefinite period, from day one
• Private medical care
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.
• Professional trainings and qualification support
• Wellbeing Program
• Online Social Fund benefit platform
• Social, sport and integration events
• Onboarding Program for new hires

Desired Qualifications:

• Fluent English and good communication skills
• Outstanding training, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Certifications in agile and iterative project methodologies (Lean, Kanban, Agile, Scrum, Scaled Agile, etc.)
• 5 years of agile project experience in multiple roles
• 2 years of agile coaching and/or implementation
• Knowledge of project management and software development concepts and tools
• Experience working in a global environment
• Passion for driving organizational change through cross-team collaboration and continuous improvement
• Positive, can-do attitude, ready to take on new challenges
• Agile tool administration or configuration experience such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure is a plus

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially.