Job Title:  Manager | APM: Agile Coach | Bengaluru | Finance Transformation

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ø Coaching and mentoring agile teams

Ø Agile Maturity assessment and enabling team to continuously improve

Ø Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices

Ø Value stream identification, value stream analysis and value stream mapping,

Ø Mapping OKRs/ Organization goals to Execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels

Ø Facilitating ART Launch

Ø Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement

Ø Working with Leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management group

Ø Conduct Big room trainings, brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment etc.

Ø Define revised org structure based on Agile

Ø Stakeholder management, influencing and running project governance, change management and benefits realization

Ø Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members

Ø Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools.

Ø Lead the development of a culture where development team and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices

Ø Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.

Ø Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams

Ø Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream

Ø Actively scans the external environment to stay abreast of, and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts and capabilities

Ø Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization

Required Skills:

Ø Overall 10-15 years of total experience including significant experience being a Scrum Master and 4-6 years in Agile Coaching

Ø Full time MBA / Engineering / equivalent

Ø Software development experience is preferred

Ø One or more of certifications such as SAFe, LeSS, CSP, PSM-II, CEC, SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF is a plus

Ø Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)

Ø Coaching skills at different levels of the Organizations (Portfolio, ART and Teams) and Leadership

Ø Should be aware and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training and coaching tools, and models and knows when to apply them

Ø Should have experience in implementing one or more Scaling Agile frameworks.

Ø Effectively able to drive learning culture through workshops, meetings, and gamification techniques

Ø Has a deep understanding of communication, group dynamics and organizational culture

Ø Should have formal and/or informal education about coaching and strong mentor relationships

Ø Experience in product backlog management tools is highly desirable

Ø Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Ø Experience in Client Facing role

Ø Experience in Automotive/ Auto-ancillary industry is preferred

Other Requirements:

Ø Base location should be Bangalore or candidate should be willing to relocate to Bangalore

Ø Willingness and ability to take initiatives and learn independently

Willingness to travel to client office as required