Agile Coach

Brooksource is looking for an Agile Coach to join the Value Management Office (VMO) Talent Advancement team at their #1 Banking client in the Columbus area, to be an expert in Agile culture, values, and practices. In this role you will work collaboratively with the broader VMO team and the teams they support to expand and formalize the company’s Agile coaching and training practices ensuring continuity across the organization while also working to continuously mature those practices.

Responsibilities:

Establish collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders and team members to aid in the Agile adoption journey

Collaborate across the VMO to design and support full Agile transformations within teams

Coach and guide teams on the mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness

Work with Experience Owners, Execution Managers, and Scrum Masters to track and report on Agile Metrics & KPIs to understand progress and to leverage data for backlog management and reporting

Deliver hands-on coaching of individual teams in all aspects of Agile Frameworks (e.g. daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, backlog maturity, limiting WIP, etc.)

Create, build, and deliver customized Agile training meeting VMO branding standards

Mentor understanding of team of team principles through understanding Program Management (metrics, intake, prioritization, and allocation)

Embrace servant leadership and display behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with agility

Collaboratively create, launch, and facilitate Agile groups, Communities of Practice, and Agile Working Groups

Demonstrate a strong fundamental understanding of business operations (e.g. planning, budgeting, resource management, etc.)

Collaborate across the VMO to provide content exposing colleagues to innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility

Drive continuous improvement ensuring quality delivery and minimization of unnecessary process overhead

Coach teams to analyze Agile metrics in order to make data and value driven decisions

Collaborate across the VMO to help evolve tools processes to ensure data is accurate and accessible

Collaborate with and mentor scrum masters on improving their craft and level of agile maturity

Coach and mentor functional managers to improve their understanding of and agile capabilities

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in an Agile environment.

Deep agile expertise; has a strong understanding of servant leadership, the Agile Manifesto's values and principles, multiple agile frameworks, and agility at scale

Extended track record of delivering training in a manner ensuring knowledge transfer

Excellent interpersonal skills; must excel at team building, one-on-one conversations, and issue resolution

Strong communication skills; clearly presents complex information verbally and visually to team members, stakeholders, and leadership

Strong effective listening skills; able to engage in a conversation and show that they hear what is being said and can read the nonverbal cues of their audience

Possesses the ability to grow others; understands how to train, mentor, and coach individuals and teams, helping them become better agilists, team members, and leaders

Strong problem-solving skills; able to find creative ways to improve teams across all levels of scale, with a focus on optimizing the overall system

Brooksource provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.