Agile Coach (JIRA, LeSS, SAFe) – Finance

Agile Coach – Finance – London/Remote

Freelance/Contract

Duration: 6 months

Day rate: £600 – £900 (INSIDE IR35)

Start: ASAP

My client is looking for an experienced Agile Coach with a software engineering background.

Duties

• Lead a ‘Shift Quality Left’ culture by ensuring that test is defined as part of requirements specification and lead embedding automation in functional, acceptance and system tests.
• Support teams in increasing the frequency and automation of deployment in complex environments through embedding consistency and repeatability and enabling teams to utilise enterprise tools.
• Establish structure and understanding of technical debt and refactoring. Monitor the appropriate level of refactoring being delivered in work items.
• Coach across the organization: Facilitate groups across organizational boundaries; Coach across different domains (technical, business, human resources, etc.); Mentor and advise at the enterprise level.
• Guide organisational agility: Assess the current state of the system; lead implementation of organisational change; guide the direction of practices, processes and behaviours to enhance organisational agility; manage an organisational impediment backlog; facilitate organisational level ceremonies to develop roadmaps and plan releases.
• Develop agile leaders: coach and develop leaders at all levels in the organisation to adopt an agile mindset; lead informal structures and support formal initiatives in support of business outcomes; change the people management paradigm from controlling tasks to leading systems.
• As a trusted expert: share agile best practices and easily understood standards; facilitate the standardisation and implementation of tooling; produce enterprise metrics and progress tracking.

Skills

• Substantial experience in software engineer and as an Agile Coach role within a global organization with proficiency in Agile methodologies and tools (JIRA)
• Deep understanding of engineering principles, IT controls, automation, and quality assurance
• Transforming and scaling organizations using LeSS and SAFe
• Coaching at an enterprise level in a mature Agile environment for a number of years