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Agile Coach - 2008139

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: May 22, 2020

Job Description:

Engages with Senior Leaders, Tribe Leaders, Squad Leaders, and squad members to build and reinforce the Agile mindset and to embed Agile principles in day to day work. Implements Agile values, principles, practices and techniques to facilitate the delivery of successful results and innovation. Facilitates the successful collaboration of squads with interdependencies through the implementation of Agile procedures in technical environments.

Primary Responsibilities:

Resolves impediments that exist outside of the squad environment and works with line managers to prepare the technical environment for squads.

Aligns squad structure to ensure success and collaboration with internal teams to on and off-shore Enterprise Architects.

Analyzes program and project requirements within software development tribes, squads, and teams.

Creates and maintains continuous flow of information in Agile Center of Excellence.

Ensures cross-functional collaboration.

Ensures key stakeholders are engaging as needed and checking that backlogs are being prioritized using value-focused criteria.

Collaborates with Squad Leaders to identify solutions to development obstacles.

Delivers training and oversight to ensure knowledge transfer of specialized skills in technical, product management, project management, and user experience areas.

Identifies challenges, tests hypothesis, and evaluates solutions, including championing innovative technology solutions and research methodologies.

Collaborates with key stakeholder teams to align with the product strategy and multi-year roadmap.

Works cross-functionally to understand the business priorities and to ensure alignment against work.

Drives focus on improving and supporting processes across the delivery squads and working with design, development, and solution delivery to optimize efficiency and eliminate friction for ongoing project delivery.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Management, Marketing Management, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or six (6) years of experience coaching Information system teams, using Lean and Agile methods -- Scrum, Kanban, and XP.

Or, alternatively, a Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Management, Marketing Management, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or four (4) years of experience coaching Information system teams, using Lean and Agile methods -- Scrum, Kanban, and XP.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise ("DE") building and maintaining Web based applications and optimizing business functions -- product development, international marketing, design, DevOps, and the quality assurance and control and development life cycles -- within a financial technology environment, using industry scaling patterns --Scale, Scaled Agile, LeSS, and Spotify.

DE observing, evaluating, and implementing changes to solve organizational and cultural impediments for product development portfolios, using organizational change management frameworks -- ADKAR, Lewin, McKinsey 7-S, Kubler-Ross, and Satir.

DE overseeing the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) process to ensure alignment throughout the organization, using strategic consulting skills, including facilitation of visioning, road mapping, identifying issues and forming hypotheses and solutions, and managing projects and programs using, ITEC Catalyst, CA Agile Central (Rally), Version one, JIRA, Agile Craft, Qlik sense, and SQL.

DE applying strategic planning methods, -- balanced scorecard, visual mapping, SWOT analysis, gap planning, OKR, and Hoshin planning -- using, JIRA, Agile Craft, and Mural to display results from dashboards and reports for the consumption and improvement of product development and customer retention programs.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2008139.

Keywords: Fidelity Investments, Barnstable Town , Agile Coach - 2008139, Finance , Boston, MA, Massachusetts


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