Agile Coach

We are inviting applications for an Agile Coach to join our team based in Atlanta, Georgia. This role is in the healthcare industry and provides a long-term employment opportunity. As an Agile Coach, you will be responsible for coaching and leading a Cohort, facilitating Cohort events, managing product roadmaps, removing systemic impediments, and fostering collaboration within the team.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate various Cohort events, including Cohort Increment Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Solution Demo, and Cohort Inspect & Adapt
• Develop dashboards to provide squads with roll-up metrics for program-level reporting
• Actively remove or facilitate the removal of systemic impediments at the Cohort level
• Collaborate with Solution owners and Delivery Managers to ensure awareness of Total Cost of Ownership and balance the prioritization of technical debt and SRT fixes
• Facilitate the integration of Squad’s Increment within the Cohort
• Guide Agile Team Facilitators on impediment removal
• Foster positive relationships and collaboration with the Business Product Manager and Product Owner
• Encourage interactions and collaboration within the team to foster value delivery
• Teach and coach on visual management practices
• Help the organization towards empiricism and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Demonstrable experience in Agile Scrum and other Agile practices
• Proficiency in using JIRA and Power BI
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
• Excellent communication abilities, both written and verbal
• Solid understanding of software development processes
• Ability to create dashboards and other reporting tools
• Proven leadership skills and ability to mentor team members
• Experience with planning and prioritization in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of risk management principles and practices
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and ability to scale out
• Experience in workstation support and collaboration
• Ability to understand and apply collection processes
• Demonstrable experience in metric reporting
• Knowledge of healthcare.gov would be advantageous
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and practices
• Ability to manage and track progress effectively
• Experience with debt management would be a plus.