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Form of workAs our Agile Centre of Excellence (Agile CoE) grows at pace, our Global Agility Leader seeks an experienced ScrumMaster with the ability to guide teams on Scrum adoption, and coach teams.
You will guide our Product Squads in a Pod through their agile journey, providing coaching & mentoring across all company businesses, especially our technology executives, product owners, and product teams.
In 2021, we initiated building our reputation as an Agile company and how we build relationships & showcase our brand with the Global Agile communities, so we will look for your ideas and input to show how we can continually improve our learning approach to adopt new concepts and best practices.
You will join us at a critical stage of our Agile Transformation journey, with the autonomy to guide our leadership and delivery teams on Agile practices, helping us find the path to success through sincere, passionate, and effective Scrum adoption.
You will help us improve our business agility across our organizations through Scrum adoption, better practices, attention to metrics, and direct assistance.
Our Agile CoE collaborates with the business, operations, technology, finance, HR, and other functions across the organization.
There will be occasions to organize events and meet-ups and deliver coaching remotely and in-person, though the role requires onsite presence in our NY office for at least 3 days/per week.
What you need to have:
Significant experience as a ScrumMaster, guiding teams to adopt Scrum and overcome obstacles within large, complex organizations.
Exposure to Scrum@Scale, Large Scale Scrum, Scrum, Kanban, and any certifications such as CSP (Scrum), KMP (Kanban), ICP-Client (ICAgile), and Scrum@Scale Practitioner would be highly desirable.
Strong skills in facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, and transparency.
What makes you stand out:
Ability to evaluate organizational maturity and create a plan to improve it.
Experience working with Business and Technology teams at an Executive level.
Computing or engineering qualification to degree level and an ICF certification.
Familiarity with both Business Change and Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) preferred.
We will rely on you to:
Be a role model for agile practices within the organization, ensuring that all stakeholders understand the agile philosophy and the part they need to play to contribute to success.
Shape the continuous improvement mindset of the organization; create high-performing Pods & Squads focused on customer centricity and value, fostering self-management and collaboration.
Coach and provide tailored expertise across multiple teams to assess and uplift agile capability e.g., organizing in Value Streams, clear alignment with OKRs, breaking down work consistently, well-informed backlog management, servant leadership mindset, etc.
Curate and deliver agile capability uplift across Portfolios, Pods, and broader e.g., custom workshops, coaching, mentoring, value stream review, etc.
Leverage the Agile & Product Owner communities to identify systemic inhibitors of agile ways of working and drive the resolution of these to enable the successful scaling of agile.
Work with Agile Coaches to establish and evolve our Agile@Scale Culture and guidance, and improve the application of agile practices across the company.
Share industry trends and best practices, share ideas with our internal community, and influence agile communities and standards.
Manage and influence stakeholders with different priorities.
