Business Consulting - Agile Coach - Project Management Office
Business Consulting - Agile Coach - Project Management Office
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Job Description
At EY were all in to shape your future with confidence.
Well help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The Opportunity
At EY youll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with the global scale support inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We are seeking a passionate and experienced Agile Coach to lead and transform our teams in adopting Agile methodologies. You will be responsible for guiding cross-functional teams in the implementation of Agile practices fostering a culture of continuous improvement and enhancing team collaboration to deliver high-quality products.
Key Responsibilities
- Coaching and Mentoring: Coach teams in Agile principles and practices helping them to adopt and adapt Agile methodologies such as Scrum Kanban or Lean. Engage with team members to explore areas of improvement in Agile practices and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
- Scrum Master Responsibilities: Partner with Product Owners to prioritize work through the backlog and manage Scrum artifacts. Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning Daily Stand-ups Sprint Reviews Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement.
- Performance Metrics: Define process metrics within the Scrum team to ensure seamless communication with stakeholders. Measure team progress using metrics like burn-down charts and track dependencies with other Scrum Teams for seamless delivery.
- Organizational Change: Work with senior leadership to embed Agile principles in day-to-day scenarios and collaborate with other leaders to drive organizational change.
- Identify Continuous Improvement Opportunities: Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement and share best practices. Navigate the organization to remove impediments impacting team progress.
General Responsibilities
- Agile Project Management: Manage multiple critical projects requiring matrix management of activities across all functional areas. Drive project planning activities including stakeholder identification risk management and regular status reporting.
- Stakeholder Management: Communicate influence and negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables. Create and maintain project schedules identifying resource estimates timelines milestones and critical paths.
To Qualify for the Role You Must Have
- Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Software Engineering Information Technology MBA MCA or any other related Masters degree.
- Experience: 5-10 years of relevant Agile experience (Scrum Master Agile Coach/Mentor) with at least 3-7 years of hands-on project management experience delivering technology solutions.
- Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Mandatory Agile Certifications: Preferably SAFe Agile or (PSM I PSM II) or Scrum Alliance (Certified Scrum Master).
- Project Management Certification: PMP is preferred but not mandatory.
Skills Desired:
- Substantial experience working as part of Agile teams.
- Ability to embed and foster Agile ways of working at the team level.
- Proactively upskill the team in Agile practices.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and share best practices.
- Communicate influence and negotiate with Product Owners and stakeholders.
- Navigate the organization to remove impediments impacting team progress.
- Analyse and refine existing processes.
- Coach and mentor team members to drive continuous improvement.
- Deep understanding of agile software delivery and operational aspects.
- Knowledge of Agile frameworks (DevOps etc.).
- Experience with JIRA/Azure DevOps or similar software.
- Understanding of technology-enabled business transformation and delivering enterprise-level IT projects.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
EY Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients people society and the planet while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data AI and advanced technology EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance consulting tax strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights a globally connected multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Employment Type
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