Senior Agile Coach

Senior Agile Coach Chennai India 

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• Facilitate the growth of high-performing teams and team-of-teams by fostering a collaborative culture and enhancing team dynamics.
• Drive tangible improvements in business performance product quality and strategic alignment by focusing on outcomes over outputs.
• Promote a mindset of continuous learning and improvement adapting coaching strategies to meet team and organizational maturity levels.
• Deliver a variety of learning formats (trainings workshops community-driven learning coaching techniques to grow people into agile roles and lean-agile competency (e.g. Product Owners RTEs engineers etc.) 
• Address organizational impediments and enhance agile practices ensuring high-quality product increments.
• Lead and synchronize organizational Release Trains contributing to and occasionally leading Program Increment (PI) planning.
• Champion and embed agile values and principles across the organization ensuring they resonate even in resistant environments.
• Partner closely with Engineering Product Management Architecture and Data Science to cultivate integrated practice excellence.
• Support the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) by contributing to a consistent yet adaptable agile approach across global teams.
• Engage and align leadership to deepen their commitment to agile transformation.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Business Computer Science or a related field.
• Over 15 years of experience in IT with substantial experience in software development.
• Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach (3 years) with proficiency in leading Agile Release Trains.
• Expertise in a variety of agile frameworks and tools (e.g. SAFe Scrum Kanban Lean XP).
• Strong facilitation coaching and mentoring skills to guide teams and stakeholders through complex transformations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills capable of working with diverse teams and driving organizational change.
• Certified SPC (SAFe 5 or above).
• Knowledge of tools like JIRA / Structure / Confluence / PowerBI / Miro 

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Knowledge of DevSecOps.
• Experience in distributed Agile environments. 
• Experience in data-heavy contexts (data science AI/ML data platforms analytics decision intelligence) and related patterns (e.g. MLOps)
• Knowledge of teaming and collaboration patterns (e.g. Team Topologies)
• Experience in working in a Lean-Agile CoE (LACE) or similar

Additional Information :

• Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peer-to-peer recognition platforms. 
• Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family. 
• Plan your future with financial wellness tools. 
• Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the worlds leading consumer intelligence company delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to 2023 NIQ combined with GfK bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platformsNIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets covering more than 90% of the worlds population.

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Employment Type :

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