Grow your career as an Agile Transformation Lead with an innovative global bank in Tampa, FL. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 2-3 days onsite per week.
Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.
Contract Duration: 2+ Months
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree.
- Scrum Master, and Product Owner certification.
- Agile Coach certifications.
- 10+ years of working in an agile culture with deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban and Lean Agile frameworks.
- 7+ years working in an agile environment as a coach.
- 7+ years working in an agile environment as a Product Owner or Scrum Master.
- Demonstrated experience coaching at least 2 agile teams concurrently, through a multiyear agile transformation.
- Experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformation with demonstrated experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other scaling frameworks and deep understanding of agile values and principles.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating collaborative sessions, managing customer expectations, and ensuring work is aligned with the enterprise goals and objectives.
- Demonstrated experience in coaching to common practices to reduce risk with a deep understanding of compliance requirements for a bank.
- Understanding of the technical enablers of agile delivery and how they operate within an agile organization (e.g., CICD, DevSecOps).
- Expertise with agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams, or similar agile management tooling.
- Experience with agile testing and technical engineering techniques (TDD, BDD) and DevSecOps tools.
Desired Skills & Experience
- A passion for learning new technologies, and a desire for personal growth, through self-study, formal classes, or on-the-job training.
- Active leadership in the agile community.
What You Will Be Doing - Effect change by acting as a guide for agile teams and programs during the business unit’s multi-year agile transformation.
- Partner with stakeholders, existing Agile Coaches, and functional leaders define and execute upon strategies for adopting agile ways of working.
- Perform hands-on coaching activities for your teams and programs, including but not limited to:
- Advise leaders on how to organize, mobilize, and launch agile teams.
- Influence process execution by guiding product owners and mentoring team members.
- Drive continuous process improvement strategies enabling efficient, effective, sustainable and measurable delivery.
- Understanding of the company’s risk goal to coach teams to reduce through test automation, minimizing technical debt and increasing quality.
- Report on patterns and anti-patterns in intra-team agile dynamics:
- Identify patterns for reinforcement and opportunities for team growth.
- Establish feedback loops enabling trust, psychological safety, transparency and customer feedback.
- Design and lead workshops on the pragmatics of Lean-Agile values, principles, and practices.
- Collaborate with our client organizations to adopt sustainable Lean-Agile capabilities and processes.
- Coach and mentor more junior colleagues in agile values and principles.
Posted By: Melissa Klein
