Role: Agile Coach
Description:
We are looking for an experienced coach to help our organization continue our Agile Transformation journey. You will be a key driver in promoting and embedding Agile ways of working and will be expected to provide mentorship to all members within your tribe. Ultimately, you will play a key role in the long term strategy across the business, helping your tribe deliver excellent products and experiences to our customers in a faster and more efficient manner.
Qualifications and Experience:
- At least 3 years of experience in Agile Coaching and 5 years of experience in running Agile squads
- Experience in using Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks
- Proven track record in running agile projects of varying size and complexity
- Strong leadership, education, and coaching skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Banking experience preferred
- Coaching certifications preferred
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science preferred
Key Responsibilities
- Work with tribe squads to analyze current maturity and design a strategy for adopting agile best practices
- Guide squads on staying aligned with agile techniques and fine-tune their approach to meet client’s overall strategy
- Create and facilitate agile training sessions and workshops for technical squads and key stakeholders such as Product Owners and Delivery Leads
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement by setting goals, milestones, and assigning responsibility and ownership among squads
- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensuring adherence to industry best practices
- Champion the use of metrics and objective measures such as Advanced Jira Roadmaps and Dashboards Empower squads to take ownership, be self organizing, and improve efficiency
- Facilitate Quarterly Planning events for the respective tribe
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
