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Agile Coach
12 Month Contract (Possible Extension or Contract-to-Hire)
Location: Hybrid - 3 Days Per WK (Client located in Columbus, OH)
* Must be able to work on a W-2
* Must be local to the Columbus, OH area
Job Description
The Enterprise Agile Coach promotes agile and lean adoption and transformation across the company. They are accountable for embodying, promoting and supporting organizational agility. The Enterprise Agile Coach will provide mentoring, consulting, and guidance on applying agile and lean values, principles, and practices and their application within the organization. The Coach will utilize his/her in-depth knowledge and experience in the application of agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban practices to inspect and adapt thinking and practices to various situations. In this senior agile position, the Enterprise Agile Coach will be a strategic partner and thought leader for an organization transitioning to agile and lean ways of working. The coach will work with teams (collocated and distributed), leaders, and individuals, helping them to fully understand how to apply agile and lean frameworks and behaviors to deliver technology solutions in a complex utility environment.
This position will report directly to the Director, IT Business Management, and will be accountable for the following:
- Evangelize agility across the organization
- Influence and lead agile adoption and transformation at the company
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and training at all organizational levels in an emerging agile environment
- Assess the current organizational delivery environment, recommending and implementing optimal agile, lean, and complementary practices tailored to the company's needs
- Assess the agile health of the organization, and coach teams and management to higher levels of fluency, at a pace that is sustainable for the teams and organization
- Radiate helpful data and information to the organization, utilizing visual management techniques and information radiators, to report progress of the organization to anyone at anytime
Responsibilities
- Influence and lead the execution of the agile transformation roadmap
- Provide agile leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, teams, management, and executives
- Guide people at all levels of the organization on how to use agile and lean values, agile and lean principles, and agile and lean framework practices to delight customers and build a culture of safety, trust, respect, simplicity, courage, transparency, self-management, and personal accountability
- Create, build, and deliver customized agile, lean, and complementary training
- Prepare and deliver effective communications regarding progress and results to all agile stakeholders
- Recommend, launch, influence, and facilitate agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, and agile working groups
- Stay current on new and evolving techniques, practices, and strategies in agile, lean, leadership, and other complementary disciplines
EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. (Equivalent experience acceptable).
You Will Receive The Following Benefits:
- Medical & Dental Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401(k)
- Paid Sick Time Leave
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
Motion Recruitment provides IT Staffing Solutions (Contract, Contract-to-Hire, and Direct Hire) in major North American markets. Our unique expertise in today’s highest-demand tech skill sets, paired with our deep networks and knowledge of our local technology markets, results in an exemplary track record with candidates and clients.
