Classification: Contract
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Nashville, TN
CereCore is seeking a Senior Agile Coach to join our team in Nashville, TN.
Summary:
Agile Coach would drive improvement to our end-to-end project execution framework and coach our automation delivery teams towards Agile methodologies with Azure DevOps from project conceptual approval through long term support.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as central point of contact for framework process, resources, and training needs
- Framework Improvement:
- Research and implement updates to overarching process and training materials
- Triage feedback from the department on potential improvements and facilitate review/decision-making processes
- Manage action items for delegated template updates
- Ongoing change management through building alignment within department leadership and communication of framework updates.
- Coaching:
- Provide coaching to teams through new framework and agile implementation and ceremonies.
- Transition from elbow-to-elbow live support to periodic check-ins.
- Initiate and provide 1:1 coaching as needed for key roles.
- Training: Provide routine training for new hires, facilitate presentation by additional team members as needed.
- Reporting: Collect and report to leadership on progress of implementation and productivity/Agile KPIs.
- Community: Implement sharing of best practices through analyst and architect communities within the ACoE.
Requirements:
- Comfort in a coaching/mentorship role.
- Prior experience with new implementation of agile or scrum practices with an IT development team.
- Demonstrated ability to measure success, development team productivity.
- Software development process improvement.
- Knowledgeable of AzureDevOps configuration – nice to have.
- Experience holding individual contributors and managers not in their direct reporting line accountable.
- Experience with hybrid on/off-shore development teams – nice to have.
- Public speaking, willing to host training sessions with groups of 5-50 people.
- Facilitation, building consensus between stakeholders and tracking action items.