Agile Coach - Multiple Locations - Full-time / Part-time

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

As an Agile Coach, you will be engaged with programs that are transforming from a traditional software delivery model to an agile delivery model, or a program that is looking to mature in their agile adoption. The scope of transformation ranges from individual teams to large programs/ portfolios that cross multiple delivery teams and business segments. This is a unique role where your passion, enthusiasm, and enjoyment in customer facing coaching will be highly valued.

As the ideal candidate you are not only experienced in agile methods, but have an extensive track record of delivering high quality systems and products. You enjoy close collaboration with delivery team members to ensure compliance with our enterprise delivery method. You will also be responsible for advancing the standard enterprise methods, practices and tools as needs emerge, as well as assisting with the identification of changes to the enterprise policies and standard to support agile software delivery.

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Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as an Agile Coach for multiple scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams toward improving the way they work
  
• Act as a mentor to Scrum Masters and Product Owners
  
• Educate all levels and roles, including senior leaders, across the organization on Agile principles, process, practices and tools
  
• Provide guidance on a achieving high levels of Agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and enterprise standards
  
• Guide management on effective Agile Portfolio / Program management
  
• Facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration
  
• Drive visibility of information that help the team track their progress
  
• Guide the team towards a culture of full transparency of relevant metrics to all stakeholders
  
• Foster a culture of open communication
  
• Actively contribute to the Agile community
  
• Contribute to the evolution of the companies agile practices, processes and tools.
  
• Partner with Engagement Management to conduct Methodology Assessments
  
• Partner with Engagement Management to conduct Agile Maturity Assessments & offer recommendations
  
• Communicative and social - Must be able to clearly interact with teams
  
• Facilitative - Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
  
• Assertive - Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls
  
• Situational Awareness - Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
  
• Enthusiastic - Must be high-energy
  
• Continual improvement - Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
  
• Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a team to self-organization
  
• Attitude of transparency - Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
  
• Quick learner - Must be able to quickly gain a high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the Scrum teams
  
• Ability to coach others in incremental delivery and the value of metrics
  
• Excellent English communication skills in written and spoken form

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of IT experience
  
• 4+ years of experience in an Agile delivery environment 
  
• 2+ years of experience as a Coach or trainer in an Agile environments 
  
• Experience with Agile Planning Tools, preferably Rally
  
• 3+ years of experience coaching others in basic fundamentals of software development and processes
  
• 3+ years of experience coaching others in backlog refinement, burndown metrics, velocity and task definition

Assets:

• Agile Certifications (CSM, CSC, etc)
  
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  
• Healthcare experience
  
• Understanding of other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
  
• Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
  
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
  
• Participation in industry agile communities

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UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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