Agile Coach - Contract at Nedbank

Job Purpose
To grow the agile skills in the organisation by establishing standards, policies and practices for the introduction and sustainability of Agile methodologies. Ensure that relevant people in the organization are upskilled in the principles of Agile as well as the standards, policies and practices adopted by the organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of Agile at Nedbank to ensure that Nedbank reaches a maturity level as per the strategic objectives.
• Providing input into the formulation of Nedbank’s Agile transformation strategy
• Drive the Agile transformation plan, through Agile teams
• Provide feedback for the continuous improvement of the Agile framework at Nedbank 
• Provide subject matter expertise to aid the organisation in understanding, using, and internalising the Agile methodology  
• Stay abreast of best practices in field of expertise to inform the strategy in order to guide the teams  
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems though agile thinking
• Engage with the entire organization system and the Leaders who guide them.
• Develop a partnership with Leaders to accelerate the transformation journey.
• Develop a partnership with Leaders to accelerate the transformation journey.
• Facilitate Big Room Planning events and open dialog sessions to enable delivery.
• Evaluating and advising fit for purpose Agile frameworks.
• Coaching Senior Management and leadership on Agile Practices to enable them to support, lead and drive the transformation.
• Advising process, policies, and structural changes on an organizational level to align to Nedbank project governance. Apply agile strategies to overcome resistance to change across the enterprise
• Provide guidance and consultation when onboarding willing buyers into adopting the new Agile methodologies
• Lead and facilitate community of practice conversations to share information and knowledge with the Agile community in the organisation.
• Provide Periodic on the job training to the teams to embed Agile practices.
• Apply system thinking to surface and resolve the anti-patterns, inefficiencies, and dysfunctions.

People Specification
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Essential Certifications/Preferred Certifications

• Scrum Coach. Certified, Scrum Trainer. Certified, Scrum Professional, Program Consultant Trainer Certification, Program Consultant Certification, Agilist Certification. Certified Scrum Professional

Type of Exposure

• Knowledge and/or experience with widely accepted Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD,BDD Continuous
• Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous deployment, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques, e.g. numerous Burn down
• Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.

Minimum Experience Level

• 3 - 5 Years as Scrum Master I (DM)..
• 7-10 Years experience in software development. (7 years in Agile Software Development)
• Experience in Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Experience applying concepts and techniques from multiple agile approaches including Extreme Programming, Lean, Scrum, Kanban and Safe

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Agile Development (Proficient)
• Working in Team (Proficient)
• Training techniques (Proficient)
• Strategy and Strategic Planning (Proficient)
• Change Management (Proficient)
• Planning and Organising (Proficient)
• Agile practise (Expert)

Behavioural Competencies

• Influencing
• Coaching
• Resolving Conflict
• Adaptability
• Collaborating
• Facilitating Change