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The Enterprise Agile Coach in this contract-to-hire role drives the adoption and transformation of agile and lean practices throughout the client organization. They are responsible for championing, modeling, and fostering organizational agility. This role involves mentoring, consulting, and offering guidance on effectively applying agile and lean values, principles, and practices across the enterprise.

Location: Columbus, OH or Merrillville, IN

Work Type: Hybrid – Tuesday and Wednesday in office and other days as needed. Starting September 1, hybrid will be in office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience 
• Preferred but not required: Certification in the following
• Professional Agile Leadership™ (PAL-E), Professional Agile Leadership™ – EBM (PAL-EBM)
• Professional Scrum™ with Kanban (PSK), Scaled Professional Scrum™ (SPS)

Responsibilities:

• The Coach will utilize his/her in-depth knowledge and experience in the application of agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban practices to inspect and adapt thinking and practices to various situations.
• In this senior agile position, the Enterprise Agile Coach will be a strategic partner and thought leader for an organization transitioning to agile and lean ways of working.
• The coach will work with teams (collocated and distributed), leaders, and individuals, helping them to fully understand how to apply agile and lean frameworks and behaviors to deliver technology solutions in a complex utility environment.

This position will report directly to the Director, IT Business Management, and will be accountable for the following:

• Evangelize agility across the organization
• Influence and lead agile adoption and transformation
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training at all organizational levels in an emerging agile environment
• Assess the current organizational delivery environment, recommending and implementing optimal agile, lean, and complementary practices tailored to client’s needs
• Assess the agile health of the organization, and coach teams and management to higher levels of fluency, at a pace that is sustainable for the teams and organization
• Radiate helpful data and information to the organization, utilizing visual management techniques and information radiators, to report progress of the organization to anyone at anytime
• Influence and lead the execution of the agile transformation roadmap
• Provide agile leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, teams, management, and executives
• Guide people at all levels of the organization on how to use agile and lean values, agile and lean principles, and agile and lean framework practices to delight customers and build a culture of safety, trust, respect, simplicity, courage, transparency, self-management, and personal accountability
• Create, build, and deliver customized agile, lean, and complementary training
• Prepare and deliver effective communications regarding progress and results to all agile stakeholders
• Recommend, launch, influence, and facilitate agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, and agile working groups
• Stay current on new and evolving techniques, practices, and strategies in agile, lean, leadership, and other complementary disciplines