Agile Coach – Expert
- Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid (Should be prepared to come into the office at least 4 days per week)
- Pay Rate: $92.37/hr – $109.06/hr
- Contract Length: 12 Months with a possibility of extension
We at Raise are hiring an Agile Coach—Expert for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- In this role, you will engage in consulting, education, mentoring, and coaching support for the program team to further agile practices, mindset, and ways of working within a complex and matrixed organizational structure.
What you will do:
- Hands-on coaching of teams to improve Agile maturity, collaboration, and delivery.
- Hands-on experience implementing Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile practices
- Proficiency in running daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
- Guiding teams in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Mentoring Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members to excel in their roles
- Designing and facilitating Agile workshops, training sessions, and boot camps.
- Guiding teams and stakeholders to make informed, consensus-driven decisions.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to align Agile practices with business goals.
- Aligning team-level Agile practices with program and portfolio-level objectives.
- Support the team in navigating work across both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies
- Reinforce ways of working and operating the model with broader channel and payments product teams, operations, and go-to-market teams.
Must-Have Skills:
- Proven experience as an Agile Coach or similar role in software development
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills to guide, influence, and inspire others in the adoption of Agile practices.
- Effective problem-solving skills to identify, analyze, and rectify any hurdles or issues impeding the Agile implementation.
- Strong leadership and team-building skills to foster a collaborative and high-performing Agile environment.
- Experience with Agile techniques such as User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or Certified Agile Coach (CAC).
- Strong project management skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
- Ability to bridge both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies
- Experience as a Product Owner and/or as part of an agile product development and delivery team
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
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