Tech Mahindra - DevOps Strategist/Enterprise Coach

Essential Duties

General

- Provide guidance/coaching for all Agile & DevOps Teams to ensure Best Practices are executed across the organization.

- Identify areas to stream-line the Agile & DevOps Processes in the organization.

- Identify new/innovative ways to enhance products and provide these ideas to the Agile & DevOps Community.

- Provide Agile & DevOps training both internal and external training

- Perform Agile & DevOps maturity assessments and develop playbooks for enhancing the organization's Agile & DevOps practices

- Willing to travel and work at client sites 50%-80% of the time

DevOps Strategist/Enterprise Coach

- Guide teams in establishing and following effective processes to manage organization, planning, implementation, and delivery

- Guide the team and organization on applying Agile & DevOps practices and values to deliver results

- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

- Guide the team on how to get the most out of self-organization

- Assess the Agile & DevOps maturity of the team and organization

- Coach teams and organizations to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable for the team and organization

- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and sharing of information

- Collaborate and drive delivery transformations

- Foresee risks and dependencies and managed them proactively

- Analyze risk and report problems and delays in meeting commitments

- Coach and mentor Agile/DevOps practices across the organization

Required

- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Must be able to energize and excite IT professionals in regard to Agile and DevOps

- 10+ years of experience in software development with part of those 10 years in a technical role such as developer, tester, or operations

- Deep understanding of Agile philosophies

- Understanding key metrics for measuring success of an Agile product team

- Deep understanding of at least one Agile methodology; Scrum or Kanban preferred

- Deep understanding DevOps philosophies

- Understanding of key metrics for measuring success of a DevOps enabled Agile product team

- Deep understanding of key DevOps practices including but not limited to: Continuous Planning, Continuous Testing, Continuous Build & Integration, Continuous Deployment & Delivery

- Strong knowledge of the delivery pipeline

- Ability to work in groups or one on one to conduct deep dive training in Agile and DevOps methodologies

Personality Traits

- Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software and business concepts quickly

- Enthusiastic and fun demeanor with a mindset of team empowerment

- Deep interest and curiosity for learning new things and doing things better

- Good communication skills

- Ability to context-switch between multiple projects, codebases, and concepts with ease

- Strong problem-solving skills

- Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Education / Experience

- Must have at least 10+ years of experience on Agile Development Teams

- Must have at least 10+ years of software development lifecycle experience

- Bachelor's degree, ideally in a technical discipline with a development background