Job Description

Agile Coach - BankingAgile coach helps organization, teams, and individuals in building Agile mindset using Agile principles and practices through coaching, facilitation, mentoring and change managements skillsRoles and Responsibilities:

• Coaching and mentoring agile teams
• Agile Maturity assessment and enabling team to continuously improve
• Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices
• Value stream identification, value stream analysis and value stream mapping,
• Mapping OKRs/ Organization goals to Execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels
• Facilitating ART Launch
• Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement
• Working with Leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management group
• Conduct Big room trainings, brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment etc.
• Define revised org structure based on Agile
• Stakeholder management, influencing and running project governance, change management and benefits realization
• Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members
• Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools.
• Lead the development of a culture where development team and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices
• Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.
• Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams
• Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream
• Actively scans the external environment to stay abreast of, and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts and capabilities
• Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization

• Overall 10-15 years of total experience of which at least 4-6 years of experience MUST be in Agile Coaching
• MUST have one or more of certifications such as SPC / SAFe Agilist / LeSS / CSP / PSM-II /

• Experience in Banking Industry and domain understanding in Retail banking / Corporate banking / Investment banking is a MUST
• Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
• Coaching skills at different levels of the Organizations (Portfolio, ART and Teams) and Leadership
• Full time MBA / Engineering / equivalent
• Experience in Software projects and NOT Infrastructure projects
• Practical and hands on experience as a Scrum Master (preferred)
• Should be aware and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training and coaching tools, and models and knows when to apply them
• Should have experience in implementing one or more Scaling Agile frameworks.
• Effectively able to drive learning culture through workshops, meetings, and gamification techniques
• Has a deep understanding of communication, group dynamics and organizational culture
• Should have formal and/or informal education about coaching and strong mentor relationships
• Experience in product backlog management tools is highly desirable
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in Client Facing role

• Base location should be Mumbai (or) candidate should be willing to relocate to Bangalore
• Willingness and ability to take initiatives and learn independently
• Willingness to travel as required

Deloitte