AddressAbout the role
Role: Agile Coach
Job type: Permanent, 4.3
Job Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru
Team: New Zealand Data
As an Agile Coach, you are responsible for developing high performing squads through promoting and supporting New Ways of Working and Agile values, principles, and practices. You will do this by providing delivery coaching, and helping teams to understand Agile/Scrum theory, practices, principles, and values ultimately, enabling the squad to self-organise and apply appropriate methods and practices based on the work of the squad.
You will play an active role in helping the squad deliver, guiding them on the best ways to resolve issues or blockers and remove impediments. The Agile Coach will guide squad members who play the role of Scrum Master about the most effective ways to fulfill their role, by observing their facilitation practices and ceremonial processes and providing coaching feedback.
You will be passionate about Agile Delivery; you will also work with other Agile Coaches across ANZ to support the adoption of Agile/Scrum/New Ways of Working across the organisation.
What will your day look like
This role is accountable for:
- Embedding a culture of learning, empowerment, rapid experimentation, adaptability and collaboration.
- Guiding and coaching the squad and organisation to follow the NWOW/Agile/Scrum principles and practices that work best for the team, helping everyone understand the theory, practices, principles, and values of Agile Delivery through servant leadership. This is achieved through.
- Coaching team members on the facilitation of key ceremonies and role modelling best practice where helpful.
- Improving the flow of work.
- Enabling delivery and helping foster a strong team culture.
- Supporting and coaching the Product Owner on Agile/Scrum practices.
- Guiding and coaching the team to become self-organised.
- Helping the team inspect, adapt, and self-assess to continuously improve delivery.
- Improving transparency of work, processes, and impediments within the team.
- Facilitating the removal of impediments and coaching others to do the same.
- Helping foster a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be navigated in a healthy way without fear of blame.
What will you bring?
The ‘must have’ knowledge, skill and experience (KSE) the role requires are:
- Knowledge of agile practice and principles, including;
- Empirical process control theory: transparency, inspection and adaptation
- Scrum theory (Scrum Master service to PO, squad and organisation)
- Kanban
- Scrumban.
- 7 plus years overall experience and 4 plus relevant experience as Agile Coach/ scrum Master.
- Mentoring, coaching, team building and facilitation.
- Hands-on experience with the following tools or their equivalent;
- Jira
- Confluence
The ‘good to have’ knowledge, skill, and experience (KSE) the role requires are:
- Project Delivery experience and a demonstrable track record of delivering what matters, as well as the ability to plan and prioritise work.
- People leadership experience, including a demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, lead and influence people.
- Continuous improvement methodologies, techniques, and practices such as from the Lean/Six Sigma body of work.
- A sound understanding of data and analytics work, delivery practices and subject matter.
- Experience delivering data outcomes that drive decision making in a financial services or banking organisation.
So, why join us?
Our purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. That's why we strive to create balanced, sustainable economy in which everyone can take part and build a better life. By helping people make the most of what they have, we transform ideas, hard work and ambition into reality.
Career development means different things to different people. It may simply mean developing a skill, broadening your experience by moving sideways or stretching yourself by moving to a different business. How you manage and develop your career is up to you, but ANZ is committed to helping you do this by providing you with the support, tools and resources you need.
We work flexibly at ANZ and encourage you to talk to us about how this role can be flexible for you and any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself.
If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
Job Posting End Date
01/03/2024, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)
