Agile Coach - Johannesburg at iOCO

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Release Train Engineers, Business Owners, Leaders, Executives, and other Lean-Agile coaches to help them embody an agile mind-set and implement Lean-Agile practices.
• Exposes leaders and organisations to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility.
• Understand where the Organisation is within their agile journey and employ the right approach to take them to the desired maturity.
• Leverage multiple frameworks and developmental models to provide a customised coaching approach to the organisation and individuals.
• Enable strong and fast feedback loops.
• Use data (productivity, team health and value delivery metrics) skilfully to assess and guide the organisation to better agility.
• Embody agile principles and lead by example.
• Increase collaboration, predictability, transparency, and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
• Demonstrate and value honesty, fairness, openness and listening abilities.
• Mentorship - Sharing knowledge, skills and perspectives that foster personal and professional growth for others (formally and informally).
• Engage in internal initiatives where relevant.
• Share knowledge with peers and actively participate or contribute to the coaching capability 

Qualifications:

Essential Qualifications:

• SAFe Practice Consultant (6.0)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile certifications such as PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master, Leading SAFe, Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) or similar - advantageous

Your expertise:

• 5-10 years as an Agile Practitioner or Practise Lead, especially at an organisational transformation context or a senior coaching role
• Proven experience working on agile initiatives
• Knowledge of Agile at scale
• Solid understanding of Lean, Scrum and Kanban
• Senior Agile Coaching Experience advantageous