Sr. Agile Coach

Job Summary

Avalara's Agile Enablement Team is looking for an experienced SAFe implementation and Program Delivery Agile Coach to join our Engineering Teams.

As an Agile Coach, you will be supporting the Technology group to ensure program teams adhere to the SAFe Process and bring organizational structure, and Agile disciplines in day-to-day operational management to the teams.

You will be responsible for evangelizing SAFe and Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams, collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the AET Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Delivery Teams (ARTs)
• Understand Business goals and partner with RTEs in Lean Portfolio Management Roadmapping, within Teams and across multiple dependent teams
• As a hands-on Agile Coach for 15+ teams and multiple ARTs, drive proper SDLC adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process
• Coach Teams to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line
• Understand the domain of large and complex software
• Be able to perform agile project management on large and complex software
• Ensure proactive communication of KPI metrics and insights to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira
• Be able to partner with RTE to facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Business units
• Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and align on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results, and deliverables.
• Proactively monitor and assess teams' Agile maturity, health metrics and project needs
• Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts
• Facilitate delivery of release train milestones by implementing effective processes and tools

Requirements / QualificationsExperiences:

• 10+ years of total experience in software development
• 8+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with highly technical projects
• 5+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management
• 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework
• Experience in Agile transformation
• Technical Understanding of SaaS Product development
• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• SAFe Certification

Must have:

• Understand spirit of Agile, Portfolio Management and DevOps practices
• Understand finer nuances of Scrum & Kanban
• Understand large scale project management
• Understand release planning, coordination, and management
• Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment
• Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and advanced filters

Preferred:

• Actively drove large scale Agile framework adoption in medium-large program.