Agile Coach with Fortune 500 Bank

Akkodis is seeking an Agile Coach for a contract position with our Fortune 500 banking client.

Rate: $80-84.50/hr W2. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Location: 3 days onsite in Charlotte, NC

Position Summary:

• Responsible for enabling teams, up to an entire Agile Release Train, to learn, implement, and mature Lean-Agile principles and practices.
• Trains and coaches teams on Agile and modern engineering practices.
• Empowers teams to become self-managing, fulfill their cross-functional potential, and have an attitude of relentless improvement.
• Guides and supports the transformation to Lean-Agile and educates leaders on the mindset. Performs hands-on training/coaching to teams in all aspects of Lean-Agile.
• Coaches lead roles and teams to embrace a Lean-Agile and learning mindset.
• Provides guidance about how to create and manage and intake process, healthy backlog, and how to facilitate valuable Agile ceremonies.
• Helps align teams to Enterprise Agile standards and practices, and coaches team members through change.
• Facilitates discussions, decision making processes, and conflict resolution within and across teams.
• Helps to identify and resolve organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance.
• Provides feedback to management regarding the progress of Agile adoption within their teams.
• Helps form and sustain the DMT Agile Center of Excellence.
• Drives maturity and guide 1 existing Release Train
• Support successful implementation of PI Plannings with 10 Agile Teams
• Scale up one additional Release Train by mid-2023
• Transforming 15 new Agile teams - by Q3 2023
• Facilitate meetings across both Onshore and Offshore teams and time zones

Required Qualifications:

• 2 years of Agile Coaching experience or Release Train Engineer experience
• 5 years of experience working with Agile teams (both Scrum and Kanban)
• Ability to set up new agile teams and guide them through their forming journey
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience in developing a transformation stagey for multiple trains and drive the execution of maturity milestones and goals
• Scaled Agile Certified: SAFe Agilist/ RTE/ SPC

Preferred Skills:

• Bank experience
• Continuous Improvement Survey creation and execution on Agile Maturity

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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