Agile Coach at APA Life Assurance Company Ltd

KEY PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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
• Coaches business units outside of the digital factory on Agile methodologies
• Engages teams of external dependencies to develop an incremental integration plan

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience

JOB SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• 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

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Certified Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner

EXPERIENCE

• 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
• 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.)