Agile Team Coach Sr

Position Overview
The Agile Coach Senior will serve as a key member of the Navistar IT Agile Center for Transformation team. They will collaborate closely with the CIO Staff and the IT Operations team on designing and advancing agile practices at scale. An experienced agile practitioner, they will work with IT and business partners to design, train and launch Agile Release Trains following the SAFe framework. As an experienced servant leader, they will coach teams on their agile maturity journey and drive adoption of lean and agile practices for continuous improvement. They are a change agent and lifelong learner passionate about digital transformation in a rapidly evolving transportation industry.
This is a Hybrid position in Lisle, IL.
Responsibilities

• Coaches product and software development teams as a servant leader.
• Uses agile methodology, practices, and frameworks to efficiently plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Trains on Lean and agile practices for continuous improvement and problem solving. Drives and reinforces adoption of practices through coaching and mentoring.
• Helps teams identify, design, and implement process improvements that enable incremental value delivery to the customer.
• Drives shared accountability for outcomes within teams. Ensures the proper use of collaborative processes to manage tasks, issues, risks, and remove impediments.
• Uses metrics to inspect and adapt team progress, performance, and agile maturity.
• Fosters environment for healthy, high performing teams by improving transparency, feedback loops and team engagement.
• Facilitates agile ceremonies and events, guides teams towards healthy management practices and decision-making processes.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 8 years of experience and certified scrum master

OR

• Master's degree
• At least 6 years of experience and certified scrum master

OR

• At least 10 years of experience and certified scrum master

Additional Requirements

• Qualified candidates, excluding current Navistar employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. Navistar does not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)

Desired Skills

• Experience in an Agile Center of Excellence or Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).
• SPC certified with experience implementing SAFe. Ability to coach Agile Release Trains and key roles such as Release Train Engineers and Product Managers.
• Has contributed to the growth of agile communities in previous roles through development of documentation of guidelines, processes, and practices for Agile Teams at various levels.
• Experience collaborating with global and distributed teams. Comfortable with online facilitation, relationship building and virtual tools.
• Exceptionally strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Leads with empathy and radical candor.
• Experience guiding teams through project to product transitions and IT digital transformation.
• Ability to set priorities, multitask and meet deadlines.
• Motivated to achieve high standards and measurable results.
• Embraces and teaches simple, sustainable, and healthy work and life management practices.

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