Jr. Agile Coach
Are you looking for an opportunity to help people continuously improve? You could do just that as an Agile Coach at Vertafore! In this role, you'll influence individuals and groups to ensure the continuous improvement of our software development teams and processes.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
On a daily basis, you'll coach development teams and individuals to enable effective processes, healthy relationships and interactions, and sustainable development. You will also provide Agile leadership and guidance to teams and leaders at all levels of the organization. You'll work closely with our team of Release Train Engineers, helping facilitate alignment and transparency across the business.
Qualifications:
"Must have" skills:
Excellent written and oral communication, especially enabling visibility and transparency
Practical team experience with Scrum, Kanban, and/or XP practices
Continuous improvement mindset and understanding of the core tenants of Agile
Pragmatic approach to enacting change in individuals and groups
The ability to approach both problems and successes with open-minded curiosity
"Nice to have" skills:
Large and small group facilitation experience
Previous ScrumMaster, Agile Coach, or other coaching experience
Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), or other scaling strategies
Experience with cross-functional teams, both within development and across departments (e.g., customer support, sales, marketing, implementations, etc.)
Project leadership & organization skills, including a little spreadsheet voodoo
Interest in looking at data (qualitative or quantitative) and discovering the story behind the data
The ability to engage with a group or individual and facilitate learning without directing them to a specific solution
A background in Computer Science or related technical experience
· Travel required up to 10% of the time.
· Ability to work remotely with a stable internet connection on an as-needed basis
· Located and working from an office location (when required)*
· Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
· Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
· Frequent sitting and/or standing.
*Our offices are currently closed due to COVID-19 and are scheduled to re-open mid 2021.