Company Description
We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.
Job Description
Wood Mackenzie is looking for an experienced Agile Coach with excellent problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills to join our industry-leading data analytics company. We are headquartered in Edinburgh where our team is working on a next generation, data analysis & visualization platform utilized by our customer to drive billion-dollar decisions.
Role Purpose
We are seeking a hands-on, talented Senior Agile Coach to join our dynamic fast paced Product Team. As a qualified scaled Agile coach, the senior Agile Coach is responsible for coaching, training and mentoring Product Owners, Technical leads, Team Leads, QA leads and Directors to leverage Scaled Agile principles, practices and frameworks in order to deliver high value business capabilities. You will serve as a subject matter expert on introducing agile and scaling agile across the rest of the product organization. Our Senior Agile Coach will embrace servant leadership and display behaviours that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being agile. We’ll look to you to identify opportunities for continuous operational and/or team improvements.
About the Day to Day Responsibilities of the Role
Responsibilities
- Continuously contribute to the review, update and delivery of the Agile Transformation roadmap aligned to business need
- Serve as the subject matter expert to instil a culture of measurement with respect to both the impact of the change to the business and the effectiveness of the system of delivery
- Work with teams to assist them in implementing and improving their Agile practices
- Stand up new teams, including providing interactive Agile and ongoing coaching and training where necessary
- Assess the Agile maturity of the team(s) and coach to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable
- Facilitate workshop training on the Scaled Agile framework, principles & methods
- Coach teams on how to remove complex roadblocks and impediments to change and delivery
- Drive continuous improvement through transparency, balance, flow, respect, customer focus, collaboration, and agreement
- Proactively collaborate and communicate with internal and external stakeholders to address Agile knowledge gaps to support Agile effectiveness
- Identify and direct the implementation of process improvements that significantly improve quality across the team, department and business
- Provide subject matter expertise to team members and applicable stakeholders on complex projects for assigned areas of responsibility
- Line management of some other coaches and/or Scrum Masters
- Work with the broader group of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to foster an Agile Community of Practice
Qualifications
The person that fills this role must be a self-starter who is energized by a challenge, passionate about bringing great products to market and love the thrill of creating a new standard for what’s possible.
Skillset
- Expert-level experience working directly with Agile teams on projects as an Agile Coach or SPC in a digital product development environment helping teams efficiently deliver software
- Scaled Agile certifications and experience of implementing Agile transformations
- Experience of delivering Agile training and facilitation across teams and stakeholders
- Experience in presenting and discussing to a large audience, including Associate to Senior Engineers, Architects, Directors and VPs
- Experience working with Agile software development methods; Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery, Pair Programming
- Familiarity with the product development lifecycle for enterprise SaaS products
- Ability to understand complex issues quickly to identify value streams and slices
- Strong tactical, strategic thinking, problem solving skills
- Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
- Demonstrated ability to connect and influence others to achieve team goals
- Ability to coach, lead and motivate diverse project teams and juggle multiple tasks
- Experience with Agile ALM tools such as JIRA.
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Additional Information
- We are a hybrid working company and the successful applicant will be expected to be physically present in the office at least 2 days per week to foster and contribute to a collaborative environment, but this may be subject to change in the future
- Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones
Wood Mackenzie Values
- Inclusive – we succeed together
- Trusting – we choose to trust each other
- Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
- Future Focused – we accelerate change
- Curious – we turn knowledge into action
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