Agile Coach - Director Consulting

City and County of San Francisco, California

Job Title
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Agile Coach

Job : 71606

Position Type: Full-time

Location: Bay Area, CA - Onsite

Responsibilities:

• Understand the transformation context, create roadmaps/plan, drive agile transformation at the enterprise level
• Should be able drive agility at the Team, Program and Portfolio levels
• Will be responsible to transform / transition projects / programs from waterfall to agile
• Training stakeholders and team members
• Provides input on how teams learn and adopt lean and agile practices and principles
• Follow up and move transformation process along
• Assist in driving the set-up of Agile Scorecards, Dashboards and configuration of tools
• Conduct process assessments, agile adoption roadmaps, establish ideal implementation design, and help customers through the validation, launch, and continuous improvement stages
• Configure and coach usage of tools like JIRA / Rally
• Provide thought leadership to clients on agile
• Willing to travel across locations in the US and work from client premises

Required Skills

• A minimum of 15 years in software development, with 4+ years working in agile transformation
• SPC certified
• LPM, Agile Budgeting
• Working as a Transformation coach for enterprise level agile transformation
• Working with one or more lean agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban)
• Including familiarity with one or more of the enterprise/scaling frameworks
• Helping learn and adopt agile practices and principles
• Knowledge of the software engineering lifecycle
• Understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, test driven development, service virtualization and all things around it

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program;

401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.