Agile Coach

12-month initial contract – with extensions

Up to AED 30,000 + visa + healthcare for candidate only.

I am working with a leading financial institution here in the UAE that is looking to bring on an Agile Coach on an initial 12-month contract:

They’re looking for an Enterprise Agile Coach to lead and support their organization’s transition to fully adopting agile principles and practices across all departments and levels.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in agile methodologies, change management, and leadership development and a demonstrated ability to drive large-scale agile transformations.

You will be responsible for:

• Overseeing the agile practices and maturity roadmap for 5-10 Agile Squads.
• Developing agile maturity assessment criteria, evaluating squads, and providing ratings along with actionable improvement plans.
• Coaching teams on Agile mindset and practices, refining processes like ceremonies, reporting, estimation, and user stories.
• Enhancing agile adoption within squads while embedding and reinforcing agile principles.
• Acting as a problem-solver at the squad level, removing blockers to ensure smooth delivery.
• Providing guidance to squad members on areas for improvement based on specified assessment criteria.
• Assisting Scrum Masters in facilitating and planning key Scrum events, such as sprint planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews, daily stand-ups, and backlog refinement.
• Helping shape the enterprise’s agile strategy, including leadership engagement and education efforts.
• Driving the education and adoption of the SAFe framework, including leading PI planning and supporting Product Owners with product roadmaps and backlog preparation.
• Running Scrum of Scrums to assist Scrum Masters in a Release Train Engineer (RTE) capacity.
• Defining, compiling, and communicating portfolio-level reporting for squads and the Agile Release Train (ART).

Please apply to be contacted with further information.

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