Our client is embarking on a large agile transformation journey and we are looking for experienced Kanban Coach to help guide our teams through the transition.

Responsibilities:

• Embrace servant-leadership and coach teams on Kanban methodologies
• Help teams assess the overall health of their Kanban practices and culture to identify opportunities to improve and provide coaching to improve
• Help teams understand and implement effective metrics on things that impact value driven delivery
• Build, deliver and improve customized Kanban coaching and training
• Trains and coaches new development teams, Product Owners, and managers in Agile values, and principles, as well as Kanban principles
• Organizes workshops that help promote Agile maturity across the organization
• Communicates well with teams and leaders of the organization, good listening skills, asking questions and giving feedback
• Ensures Agile and Kanban concepts, values and principles are adhered to, being a voice of reason and authority
• Enthusiastic and maintains a positive, high-energy attitude
• Continually grows his/her craft learning new tools and techniques
• Able to handle conflict resolution well, facilitating discussion and alternatives of different approaches
• Coaches teams and the organization to achieve self-organization team accountability

Qualifications:

• At least 15 years of software development and delivery experience
• At least 5 years of experience with Kanban frameworks
• Experience with eXtreme Programming, Software Craftsmanship, and/or DevOps
• Experience working in large enterprise IT organizations
• Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP), AKT, AKC
• Experience in code refactoring, simple design principles and continuous integration
• Experience in training, coaching and mentoring new Kanban teams
• Experience in creating Agile and Kanban training / workshop material
• Experience working with large, small, remote and collocated Kanban teams
• Strong presentation, communication, conflict-resolution, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively deliver Agile technical training
• Jenkins, GoCD, Bamboo
• JUnit/NUnit, Selenium, SonarQube, Fortify, Jira, Rally
• Expert experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) principles.
• Deep understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes.
• Fluency with vast variety of DevOps tools in all areas: CI / CD, Release Management, Configuration Management
• Active DevOps community member and contributor to open source projects is a plus.

Keywords: Kanban Leader, Kanban Trainer, Kanban Champion, Senior Kanban Coach, Agile Transformation Leader, Enterprise Agile Coach, Technical Agile Coach, Enterprise DevOps Agile Coach, Technical Agile Coach, Scrum Coach