Location Address: WFH – (Toronto after covid restrictions are lifted)
Contract Duration: 6 months
Story Behind the Need:
• Project: Integrated with Salesforce to present leads and opportunities to the financial advisors on the Salesforce platform.
Candidate Value Proposition:
• Opportunity for exposure to cutting edge technology and to assist in building and empowering high functioning teams.
Typical Day in Role:
• Educate team members, enablers, and stakeholders and conduct training sessions to build trust, commitment, and mutual accountability between participants
• Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring to deliver team members requiring to elevate their cross-functional skillset and self-management abilities
• Facilitate, participate in, and support team activities, wherever applicable, such as:
o Capacity management
o Workflow visualization
o Throughput predictability
• Lead and facilitate workshops for team members to foster continuous improvement, build agreements, and promote a shared-understanding in alignment with business vision, roadmap, and dependencies with other value streams
• Implement and monitor metrics to gauge teams' efficiency, and effectiveness, by improving their capacity to identify and resolve causes of delay and building a sustainable model
• Identifying and enabling practice advocacy among team members
• Support the best use of existing tools and identify/create new ones, whenever required, to elevate Agile delivery capabilities
• Foster effective communications to reduce or eliminate waiting times with partner functions
• Help to accelerate the evolution of the Agile maturity of value streams
• In some instances, help to design and to implement strategies to improve organizational Agility
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 3+ years of Agile Coach experience and/or leading large cross-functional/cross-regional teams on major organizational projects
• Experience with Lean Change Management approaches
• Proven experience acting as Agile Coach in dynamic technical environments
• Deep knowledge of Agile-Lean principles and practices, and the flexibility to adapt your experience to new and evolving environments
• Technical experience with large scale software delivery
• Excellent understanding of Agile-Lean approaches (Scrum, Kanban, BDD, etc.) and trending software technologies
• Fluent in English (written and verbal)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• High level of DevOps understanding with ability to coach team on concepts through demonstration and support
Soft Skills:
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users
• Capacity to read individual and group behaviours and to implement adapted practices to connect and influence people whilst elevating their capacity to collectively achieve business goals
• Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to distil technical details into human terms, in a multi-cultural environment
• Ability to enable distributed teams
Best vs Average:
• Previous experience with DevOps transformation or engineering practices
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering, business, information sciences, or other related fields
• Certified Scrum Professional Certification or similar advanced certification (CST) is an asset
• Kanban Certified Professional or similar advanced Certification (AKP) is an asset