Location: Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid - 3 days onsite and 2 days remote)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract (Possibility of extension)
Years of Experience: 12+ years
Mandatory Skill required - Agile Transformation
Your responsibilities in this role will include:
Lead Agile adoption, enablement, transformation, @Scale (multiple teams, programs, large solutions) size of 150/200+; current ways-of-working assessment, gap analysis, transformation backlog and roadmap.
Create / re-configure team topologies and organization for agile ways-of-working alignment.
Conduct agile maturity assessments, and continually review and ensure teams improvement can be measured.
Coach Agile Teams, SMs, POs, and Program / Product Managers on Lean-Agile culture, mindset, principles, practices and ways of working.
Drive (or part of Transformation team) org level Transformation & Change, with Leadership / Senior Management; experience with Org. Change Management frameworks, such as Prosci, Kotter, ADKAR, etc., will be an advantage.
Facilitate team and program (@Scale) level Agile events/ceremonies (including PI planning and ART events), and maintain artifacts (Program and Team Boards)
Implement agile scaling frameworks - SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, DAD, Nexus, etc., or a contextualized framework as needed.
Build high-performance teams, including conflict management, team dysfunctions, etc.
Lead/facilitate agile planning, estimation, and sizing at team and program levels.
Be part of Value Stream-related activities - Value Stream identification, mapping, analysis, etc.
Conduct agile training and certification; workshops, boot camps etc. for varied topics.
Lead / be part of the solution team for POVs, RFPs, and RFXs; for agile dev. services solutions.
Co-facilitate (with SMEs) tech excellence related to DevOps, Continuous Delivery, CI-CD, Testing (automation) and Tech pipelines.
Mentor and guide usage of Agile-related metrics at the team, program, and product levels; boards (Scrum, Kanban, Program) and create contextualized reports/dashboards; drive agile-related governance.
Create Business Cases, work on Lean budgeting/costing/finance, and funding Value Stream practices at the program and portfolio level.
Use ALM tools across teams and program/product management and collaboration, such as - ADO Boards, Jira, Jira Align, Digital.ai Agility (VersionOne), Rally, Teams, digital Whiteboards, MS Office/360, etc.
Experience & Qualifications:
Certified in at least one agile scaling framework - SAFe, Scrum@Scale, etc. - SAFe-SPC, SAFe-RTE, Scrum@Scale Practitioner, or an equivalent.
Certified in Agile Coaching - ICAgile, Scrum Alliance, or an equivalent.
Certified in Scrum and/or Kanban - CSM, SAFe-SM, PSP, or an equivalent.
Experience playing the role of an Agile Coach and Scrum Master for at least 3-5 years each.
Have been part of or led Agile / Transformation Office and have been a key member of led Agile transformations @Scale.
Have been part of led Agile CoEs and/or CoPs.
Extensive experience in SDLC, and IT project/program/delivery management.
Experience in PO and Product Management agile practices, including but not limited to backlog maintenance (Epic, Feature, Story), value delivery and measurement, and converting user needs into Features and Stories.
Extensive usage of Agile-related metrics at the team, program, and product levels; usage of Scrum, Kanban, Program, and other boards.
Strong hands-on usage of ALM tools across teams and program/product management and collaboration, such as - ADO Boards, Jira, Jira Align, Digital.ai Agility (VersionOne), Rally, Clarity, ServiceNow, Teams, Slack, Miro, Mural, digital Whiteboards, MS Office/360.
PPM tools experience will be an added advantage.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
Can engage with leadership, CXOs, senior management, their agile coaches, and senior agile practitioners.
Represent the organization in internal and external agile forums.
The ability to demonstrate thought leadership will be an added advantage.
Exhibits and can coach on lean-agile leadership; embrace agile values and principles.
Demonstrates strong retrospection, inspection, and adaptation behavior.
Demonstrates Project to Product mindset and ways of working.