Agile Coach

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Digital & Mobile Product Development encompasses the Product Development Planning & Delivery, Application Services & Architecture, Product Development, and QA functions. Product Development Planning & Delivery works hand-in-hand with Product and Technology leads to efficiently plan, execute, and deliver on its product roadmap, including driving greater alignment between the product roadmap and development using Agile practices.

Within Product Development Planning & Delivery, the Product Development Planning & Portfolio Management team plays a critical role chartered with:

• Driving and supporting ongoing alignment across Product, technology and supporting partner teams through effective planning, definition, and monitoring of the target product development scope for each Market Release, from kick-off through delivery.
• Ensuring Digital & Mobile product development scope and broad range of product development projects and processes are effectively planned, aligned for delivery, monitored, and reported across multiple development organizations employing both Agile/Scrum and waterfall development methodologies.
• Owning the development, continued improvement, and training for the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and end-to-end planning and delivery process. The team facilitates, socializes, implements, inspects and adapts a “continuous,” adaptive, multi-level, and Agile product planning and scope definition process in collaboration for each market release with Product Strategy, Product Development, and other technology and business partners.
• Supporting Product portfolio/program governance, producing release and program progress reporting, providing business relationship management, and leading end-to-end process definition and improvement activities.
• Implementing, improving, and administering the organization’s Product Development strategy, planning and execution tools, including its implementation and support of Rally, its new Agile Application Lifecycle Management tool, and its existing tools, including Confluence Wiki and JIRA.
• Defining the recommended Scaled Agile Process, Framework and Best Practices, and ensuring process governance via ongoing training, coaching and mentorship across all programs and teams.

Position summary:

Reporting to the Director of Agile Practices, the Agile Coach is responsible for teaching and reinforcing Agile processes, best practices and guidelines at the team level. He/she works directly with Scrum teams, Product Owners, Developers and Testers to increase team-level productivity and efficiency by establishing a shared understanding of the Scaled Agile Process as it is defined and documented for the Digital & Mobile Product Development organization.

The Agile Coach also plays a significant role in supporting process governance, driving improvements at the team level, and reinforcing best practices and guidelines for Rally, our Agile Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) tool.

• The Agile Coach is passionate about Agile, communication and group dynamics. He/she knows how to work with a team of skilled engineers in a very fast-moving environment, and is able to drive…