Hybrid Agile Coach

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About the role

  • Agile Coach at Aflac focusing on coaching Agile/Lean teams. Develop and refine practices for effective delivery across software development teams.

Responsibilities

  • Coach teams on Agile/Lean frameworks, practices and processes (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
  • Guide Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and team members in their respective roles
  • Focused on value delivery and alignment to business goals
  • Support Engineering Excellence (QA, DevOps, App Support) initiatives
  • Onboarding/upskilling new teams to follow our agile ways of working
  • Develop, Refine and Document Agile practices/processes
  • Identify and address impediments to agile adoption and implementation
  • Define and refine metrics for Digital Services and promote the use of metrics and feedback to drive improvements in team performance
  • Provide guidance on Agile tooling to enhance productivity and transparency
  • Facilitate area/organization wide discussions/workshops as needed
  • Play a leading role in establishing ways of working for multi-team initiatives
  • Liaise between development teams and leadership to resolve organization wide impediments
  • Develop and deliver Agile/Lean training and workshops
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement for our people
  • Facilitate learning and development at our Communities of Practice
  • Keep up to date and share industry-wide trends and advancements
  • Become an expert in a particular topic e.g. Scaling, Flow, Process, Tooling etc.
  • Proactively promote changes to our agile ways of working and tooling
  • Communicate changes through appropriate channels
  • Curate content to guide our community
  • Plan a rollout approach
  • Monitor adoption and adapt processes as appropriate

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer science, Information Systems or business administration or related field
  • Eight or more years of experience in software product or application development, business analysis or project management
  • Four or more years of experience as a Scrum Master
  • Experience working as a Scrum Master on at least three different agile teams
  • Certification ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
  • LeSS Practitioner

Benefits

  • medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • prescription drug coverage
  • health care flexible spending
  • dependent care flexible spending
  • Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
  • 401(k) plans
  • annual bonuses
  • opportunity to purchase company stock
  • 11 paid holidays
  • up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
  • state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked) and other leaves of absence, if eligible

Job title

Agile Coach

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$135,000 - $170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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