RTE​/Agile Coach - Seattle, WA

Agile/Dev Ops Coach

Take a visible role in a high performing Agile/Dev Ops coaching team; facilitates the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of Agile/Dev Ops framework, principles, and practices.

Coach Agile / Dev Ops practices, techniques, and frameworks, such as SAFe, Scrum, XP, and Kanban to reduce the gap between Agile / Dev Ops theory and practice

Work with team to identify pain points and clarify general questions on ADO usage.

Guide team in the implementation of following items: vision, roadmap, delivery plans, sprint planning, Epic/ Initiative Roadmap, user stories and work items creation, process templates, KPIs

Facilitate the Program Increments (PI) planning event

Manage risks and dependencies

Escalate and track impediments

Develop content; leads workshops and training sessions to educate individuals and leaders on Agile values, principles, and practices.

Recommends, develops, tracks, and monitors Agile/Dev Ops metrics in areas that affect value-driven delivery.

Generate new ideas, supports change, encourages innovation, and helps to creatively solve problems

Listen and support team in problem identification and decision making

Coach teams to assess, measure, document, and communicate progress against defined goals and OKR’s

Support the teams’ commitments

Provide strategic guidance for developing and improving program and portfolio prioritization, value stream delivery, and outcome measurement.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess the overall health of business agility and help them identify improvement opportunities.

Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.

Help drive the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle

Facilitate system demos

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience)

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, required from an accredited institution
• 5+ years of experience with Scaled Agile Framework or Agile Methodologies
• 5+ years of experience with Agile delivery and metrics
• 10+ years of experience in Program Management Best Practices
• 5+ years of experience in Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, ADO (Azure Dev Ops)
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
• SAFe certifications including SPC, LPM, PO/PM, RTE, SSM
• Extensive experience training and coaching teams in the use of Agile tools.
  
  E.g. ADO, Service Now, Miro, and Confluence.
• Ability to facilitate discussion at all levels of the organization to resolve conflicts.
• Executive presence with skills at building meaningful concise presentations.
• Practical experience with Azure Boards concepts and best practices
• Practical experience with creating delivery plan, user stories and work items

Recommended

• Certifications in Agile coaching and Enterprise Transformation.
• Technical Dev Ops coaching experience.
• Technical background in software development, architecture, or program management.