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  • Posted: Jul 29, 2019
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    Apollo Group (Apollo Investments Limited)was an idea born from the need to harness synergies across the insurance business. Built on commitment, integrity and innovation, it has risen to be one of the leading financial groups in East Africa. Apollo Investments Limited (AIL) includes APA Insurance (Kenya and Uganda). It underwrites General Insurance risks ...
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    Agile Coach

    About the Agile Coach Position:

    As an Agile Coach you will be responsible for mentoring the key Agile roles within the digital factory, with the goal of improving the quality and efficacy with which products are developed, leveraging an Agile methodology. Agile Coaches are the conduit between the business and technology.

    What Opportunities Exist at APA

    • Opportunity work in an innovative, dynamic environment with a focus on delivery.
    • Opportunity to pioneer and drive the digital transformation in financial services in the region.
    • A chance to work with highly motivated and skilled colleagues.
    • Continuous learning and professional development opportunities with academic and professional sponsorship, mentoring opportunities to accelerate your career.
    • A balanced career with a focus on wellness and sustainable lifestyle.

    Key Responsibilities

    The specific responsibilities of the Agile Coach include:

    • Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables your team to excel at agile development.
    • Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution across digital factory.
    • Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues.
    • Coaches the Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Tech Leads within digital factory to focus on delivering incremental business value while sustaining an engineering culture.
    • Facilitates cross-team meetings and helps teams find innovative ways of resolving dependencies and navigating complex business and technical trade-offs.
    • Engages in problem solving sessions with team leads on how to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps which are congruent with the Agile approach.
    • Conducts training sessions on the fundamentals of Agile with new team members.
    • Communicates the new way of working with groups outside of digital factory.
    • Engages teams of external dependencies to develop an incremental integration plan.

    Qualifications

    As the ideal candidate for this role you have:

    • Strong experience in software design and development
    • At least 5 successfully delivered projects using Agile methodologies
    • At least 2 – 3 projects that include an end to end Agile implementation where you played the role of a Scrum Master or Tech Lead. Experience in coaching 1-3 people on each project you have delivered
    • Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis
    • Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
    • Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
    • Excellent communication and mentoring skills
    • Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience
    • Certified Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner
    • Knowledge of Agile software development process
    • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, Automated Testing, Agile Games

    Method of Application

    If interested, please send your CV and relevant documents to: digital@apainsurance.org with Developer as the subject of the email.

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