Agile Coach - JHB/ CPT at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

The Agile coach empowers teams to adopt Agile as a culture shift. They use their level of experience and influencing abilities to affect the change from a command-and-control culture to a collaborative one enabling the adoption of a new way of working.

• Teaches and Mentors teams on adopting new ways of work
• Enables the transition to Agile by empowering teams to develop an Agile mindset
• Trains Teams to enable teams to transition to an Agile way of working.
• Sets up processes to support Agile-based approaches.
• Facilitates change in new ways of working.
• Applies System thinking to expose bottlenecks.
• Evaluates and Advises Agile Frameworks.
• Forms part of a network of Agile Coaches embedded in the various businesses across OML

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (MINIMUM REQUIREMENT)

• 8+ years’ experience in project/software delivery
• 6+ years’ working experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in complex environments. Experience across multiple companies and industries is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and scaling frameworks, i.e. SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, etc
• Demonstratable experience as a Scrum Master across multiple teams and companies.
• Experience across multiple industries desired
• Knowledge of agile software development and technical practices desired.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant tertiary qualification
• 3+ years’ working experience in Agile Scrum or SAFe delivery and coaching
• Relevant Agile certification required (SAFe, A-CSM, ICAgile)
• Strong understanding of scrum and Kanban
• Experience as a scrum master/ agile methodology
• Knowledge of agile software development

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• Customer First
• Executing
• Innovation
• Leading with Influence
• Learning
• Relating
• Strategic