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Job Description

Your Role

As a Principal Agile Coach you will advise mentor and coach leaders managers Product Owners Product Managers Scrum Masters Team Coaches and other Agile transformation stakeholders within a particular program (value stream). Drawing from your experience advising organizations you lead by example and challenge the status quo to promote an environment and culture of continuous improvement adaptation experimentation and innovation. With our excellent listening facilitation and conflict-resolution skills you help organizations achieve their targeted business outcomes.

You will be responsible for:

• Act as a trusted advisor and guide to organizations throughout their Lean-Agile transformation including the use of scaling frameworks value steam identification to optimize flow

• Work with senior leaders to define strategies and roadmaps for adopting and transitioning to Lean -Agile practices to successfully launch and coach Team of Teams

• Perform hands-on coaching in the context of a program (or Team of Teams / value stream): advise leaders on how to organize mobilize and launch squads influence process execution by guiding product owners product managers and mentor and facilitate events (as example for team coaches or scrum masters to follow) and drive relentless improvement of process in support of teams efforts to work in a sustainable and smarter way

• Identify patterns of how teams in the program work together: positive patterns for reinforcement and negative patterns for improvement opportunities

• Design and lead workshops and training sessions to educate key individuals on the pragmatics of lean-agile champions and developing lasting Agile capabilities

• Mentor and pair with change agents stakeholders and program manager on becoming true Lean-Agile champion a developing lasting agile capability

• Maintain the integrity of the end state vision across a diverse group of teams

• Promote continuous planning towards delivering a program or product roadmap

• Establish Agile best practices in conjunction with technical coach best practices advocated by the technical coaches

• Mentor and collaborate with Agile team coaches and other Agile coaches

• Design and deliver training in support of implementing tailored approaches depending on a teams or team of teams context

The experience you bring:

• Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable continuous Agile coaching experience at the program/value stream level

• Minimum of 7 years of practical Agile experience

• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other popular Agile practices and scaling framework is helpful (e.g. LeSS DAD Nexus) and their foundational elements (e.g. Scrum Lean Kanban Extreme Programming)

• Agile Certified Professional certifications are preferred: SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Practioner Certified LeSS Practioner (LeSS) Certified Team Coach (CTC) Certified Enterprise Coach CEC

• A Bachelors degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university

Full Time / Part Time

Worker Type

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Workplace Model

At Invesco our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week with two days working outside an Invesco office.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invescos culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed color religion sex gender gender identity sexual orientation marital status national origin citizenship status disability age or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.