Description :
- Supervises, guides, and/or instructs subordinate staff. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate business processes, upgrade or modify existing systems, and review system-wide capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
- We are seeking an experienced coach to help transition our existing work practices to a full embrace of agile methodology, from the top down.
- The agile coach will mentor and guide our employees in how to figure out the best solutions for their specific departmental challenges.
- This person will analyze our organization's existing infrastructure and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies.
- Ultimately, the agile coach will play a key role in long-term strategy across GDOT IT, helping our teams deliver better products and services in a faster, more efficient manner.
- Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for adopting agile best practices
- Guide teams in how to stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning their approach to ensure that overall strategy is being met
- Lead agile workshops for people of various technical disciplines, as well as for key stakeholders
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and assigning responsibility
- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset, and ensure the organization is adhering to industry best practices
- Work directly with Scrum Masters, Team Leads, and the PMO to nurture a healthy and productive agile environment
- Facilitate learning and development among employees through individual and team coaching
- Coach senior managers in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from the top down
- Communicate agile principles, scrum practices, and overall operating model across the organization
- Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures by teams
- Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met
- Maintain objectivity regarding issues and how to troubleshoot them by applying agile principles
- Hold stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams to review project status
- Support leadership in understanding and participating in good agile practices
- Facilitate the development of working agreements between teams and departments to improve cross-functional collaboration
- Guide the organization in implementing structured prioritization frameworks based on business value
- Assist in establishing clear escalation paths and practices to reduce workflow interruptions
- Help teams develop strategies for managing technical debt within agile frameworks
- Support the formation and maintenance of stable teams with clear ownership boundaries
Qualifications :
- Five or more years of experience as agile coach
- Experience in using scrum, kanban, and knowledge of how agile scales best
- Track record of implementing agile techniques in different work cultures and environments
- Experience in running agile projects of varying size and complexity, even in a hybrid waterfall environment
- Strong skills for leading, educating, and coaching
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Heightened personal skills to resolve conflicts and enable people of different skills to work well together
- Ability to work directly with people in any position, regardless of technical skill or title
- Able to recognize ant patterns within team dynamics and proactively work to avoid or remove them
- Experience breaking down organizational silos and improving collaboration between development and operations teams
- Demonstrated success in shifting organizations from reactive to proactive approaches
- Knowledge of techniques for integrating quality assurance throughout the development lifecycle
- Experience implementing value-based prioritization frameworks
- Track record of successfully managing organizational change in environments with entrenched practices
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certification as agile coach or scrum master
- Experience in coaching at large organizations or Fortune 500 companies
- Educational background in computer science, business management, and/or project management
- Previous management experience
Benefits:
Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.
Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.
Vision Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.
Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.
Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.