Agile Coach – Finance – London/Remote
Freelance/Contract
Duration: 6 months
Day rate: £600 – £900 (INSIDE IR35)
Start: ASAP
My client is looking for an experienced Agile Coach with a software engineering background.
Duties
- Lead a ‘Shift Quality Left’ culture by ensuring that test is defined as part of requirements specification and lead embedding automation in functional, acceptance and system tests.
- Support teams in increasing the frequency and automation of deployment in complex environments through embedding consistency and repeatability and enabling teams to utilise enterprise tools.
- Establish structure and understanding of technical debt and refactoring. Monitor the appropriate level of refactoring being delivered in work items.
- Coach across the organization: Facilitate groups across organizational boundaries; Coach across different domains (technical, business, human resources, etc.); Mentor and advise at the enterprise level.
- Guide organisational agility: Assess the current state of the system; lead implementation of organisational change; guide the direction of practices, processes and behaviours to enhance organisational agility; manage an organisational impediment backlog; facilitate organisational level ceremonies to develop roadmaps and plan releases.
- Develop agile leaders: coach and develop leaders at all levels in the organisation to adopt an agile mindset; lead informal structures and support formal initiatives in support of business outcomes; change the people management paradigm from controlling tasks to leading systems.
- As a trusted expert: share agile best practices and easily understood standards; facilitate the standardisation and implementation of tooling; produce enterprise metrics and progress tracking.
Skills
- Substantial experience in software engineer and as an Agile Coach role within a global organization with proficiency in Agile methodologies and tools (JIRA)
- Deep understanding of engineering principles, IT controls, automation, and quality assurance
- Transforming and scaling organizations using LeSS and SAFe
- Coaching at an enterprise level in a mature Agile environment for a number of years
Job Information
Job Reference: JO-2110-248300
Salary: £600 - £900 per day
Salary per: day
Job Duration: 6 Months
Job Start Date: ASAP
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Job Industry:
Job Industries: Programme & Project Management Jobs
Job Locations: Greater London
Job Types: Contract