Agile Practice Head - IT

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

- Provide agile practice leadership and education to the enterprise technology delivery capabilities for the enablement of effective scrum masters, scrum development teams, product owners, and other enabled scaled roles to ensure successful delivery of continuous business value.

- Influence leadership and management teams within our delivery practices, including business and other supporting functional areas which engagement with technology teams on agile principles, practices and tools.

- Requires excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, business judgment, and proven expertise in directing the efforts of a technical staff. Requires solid project management skills and strong ability to multi-task and manage resources in a cross-functional environment. Strong quantitative, analytical and project management skills are required.

- Drive adoption of the new delivery model and agile practices across the enterprise.

- Stay abreast of new Agile techniques, methods, and strategies

- Demonstrate thought leadership by engaging with enterprise through speaking, learning forums, blogging, etc.

- Help teams develop and implement practices and metrics that track effective and efficient delivery for continuous improvement.

Qualifications :

- Experience with the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology.

- Demonstrated ability to mentor scrum teams on agile practices (processes, tools, artifacts and ceremonies), assisting the team to self-organize, leading the team towards a path of continuous improvement

- Familiarity with quality management, organizational development, and agile principles

- Ability to motivate and inspire team members

- Ability to work across all levels of the organizations and within matrix environments

- Experience with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

- Progressive experience in business roles where change management is a vital component, including people, process, and technology change

- Capable of working independently or in a highly collaborative environment; working with and through others

- Excellent communication (both written and verbal), interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, and business judgment

- Excellent active listening skills and facilitation skills

- Exposure to DevOps is a plus.