Agile Coach – Remote – Market Rates - 6 months+
My client, a global leading health insurer, is continuing their transition to more agile ways of working. As a result, they have an increasing need for coaching support.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide hands-on coaching to teams and individuals, helping them to understand and excel in agile practices.
* Facilitate the adoption of agile frameworks and methodologies across the organization.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and feedback loops.
* Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and coaching engagements to build agile capabilities.
* Encourage the use of metrics and data-driven decision-making to optimize delivery.
* Promote a customer-centric mindset within teams.
* Assist with economic decision-making and facilitate capability and feature estimation.
* Advocate for lean thinking and systems thinking in agile practices.
* Support the transition from traditional project management to agile methodologies across the enterprise.
* Foster Lean-Agile learning and provide necessary training to kick off and maintain the transformation.
* Coach leadership to lead by example and connect them to the voices of employees and suppliers.
Required Skills & Experience
* Extensive experience in Agile transition and coaching.
* Proven track record as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or similar role.
* Strong understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and agile methodologies.
* Excellent communication skills with a customer service-oriented approach, and a focus on building relationships with people at all levels of the organization.
* Experience with Lean Portfolio Management procedures and ceremonies.
* Demonstrated excellence in leadership ability to engage and motivate in a high-performance culture.
* Self-directed achiever who identifies opportunities to drive value and takes the lead.
* SAFe certification or equivalent agile certification preferred.
* Extensive experience managing software delivery; strong IT application development & leadership background preferred.
* Experience in leading organizational change from traditional project management to agile methodologies.