Ref No.: 17-00622
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Role – Team - Agile Coach
Location - Chicago IL


SAFE Certification
Job Title Job Description Key Characteristics of the Role
Team- AgileCoach § Guide agile teams on their journey to becoming self-sustaining high performingagile teams.
§ Coach agile teams with the focus to derive the increased business value that comes with agility. Be an active member of the Agile Community of Practice and contribute to discussion and blog
§ Promote agile transformation for the organization
§ Deliver presentations & talks on aspects of agile adoption to internal Agilecommunity.
§ Provide Coaching to junior Coaches.
§ Contribute improvements to thecoaching governance and maturity models where appropriate.		 • 8 years as Agile Practitioner or coach
• 4 years + agile coaching
• SAFe Certification (SPC)
• SAFe implementation experience
• Agile projects in a large organisation
• Experience of working on large programmes of work with many scrum teams and scaled Agile Framework(s)
• Coaching and working on agile projects involving distributed team
• Agile, Scrum, Kanban
• Working with teams and groups with legacy code bases
• Relevant qualifications as a scrum master and scaled agile
• Collaboration tools esp. Rational Team Concert and JIRA
• Test Driven Development, Automated Acceptance Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Deployment
Working knowledge of:
• Experience in Financial organisations
• Coaching accreditation


Role - Sr. Agile Lean Enterprise Coach
Location – Chicago, IL


 
Job Title Job Description Key Characteristics of the Role
Agile Lean Enterprise Coach • Implement the Lean Enterprise Transformation Strategy.
• Coach senior IT and Business Leadership
• Define Operational Value streams aligned to SAFe framework
• Assess the current state of an IT vertical in relation to the target operating model
• Agree with the Agile CoE lead on an intervention strategy
• Lead the intervention strategy within an IT vertical so that it achieves the overall DevOps, Agile transformation
• Have regular catch ups with the Head ofAgile Enterprise Transformation, highlight issues, report on progress, agree the overall direction		 • 15 years IT experience
• 5- years or coaching experience
• SAFe Certification (SPC)
• SAFe implementation experience in a large organization
• Strong and proven experience leading and coaching teams in the adoption of an Agile mind set, particularly by implementing the Scrum Framework
• Strong and proven experience of a successful implementation of a DevOps initiative with proven track of before and after the intervention
• Extremely strong knowledge of Lean Enterprise thinking, Business Value Hypothesis Driven Delivery, Cost of Delay, One Metric That Matters and so on
• Extremely strong experience with Testing Automation, if not necessarily from an implementation perspective, certainly from a leadership perspective. What is BDD? Why is it so important to DevOps?
• Great Leadership and Influencing skills when it comes to driving Large Transformation Programmes that involve both technology and the business
• A strong past as a technologist (whether development, operations or testing automation)