Xebia - Agile Coach

Job Responsibilities:

- Inculcate agile mindset within the team as well as organization through interactions and Coaching

- Should have good understanding of the major agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP)

- Should be able to assess the Maturity level of the teams and organization, and coach the team(s) to the next higher level of maturity

- Assess the progress level, identify impediments, organize coaching sessions at team and organizational level

- Act as a change agent in bringing agility in thought process thereby improving agile practices and delivering Quality Product Increment

- Should be highly proficient in process knowledge, methodologies and People skills to influence teams to create a working environment

- Support implementation of Scrum ceremonies ensuring full teams engagement.

- Support Product Owner on creating the vision for the product.

- Establish a Constructive working relationship with the Product Owner, Development team, Stakeholders and Sponsors

- Identify people within the organization who could actively contribute to the execution of the new processes and practices

- Facilitates the efforts of multiple teams and the greater organization to employ Agile practices that maximize product delivery and value.

- Train and coaches all scrum team members, clarifying roles and responsibilities and offering motivation and support, as necessary.

- Sets up an Agile COE within the organization to promote the Agile best practices

- Engage the Leadership team for Agile Adoption

- Knowledge of TDD, BDD, DevOps

- Knowledge of Tools like JIRA / TFS / Rally / Version One

Minimum Qualification

- Minimum 10 years of IT experience of working on software development projects in any capacity

- Worked as Scrum Master for atleast 2 years

- Worked as an Agile Coach for atleast 2 years

- Agile certifications

Preferred Qualification

- Worked in atleast 2-3 different Agile environment/organizations

- Worked in Distributed Agile environments