As an experienced Agile Guide, your mission is to help the GT organisations team of innovators, product owners, product managers, agility leads and technologists unlock their agile potential to deliver next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run. Your expertise in various domains including lean, culture, collaboration, facilitation, process improvement and a focus on delivering value will be counted on to set direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embracing leading-edge technologies and Agile Frameworks inspires your team to follow suit.

The Agile Guide will have a deep understanding of the Agile domain and a passion for continuous improvement and coaching.

Essential Duties:

• Use professional coaching, mentoring, facilitation and training to support produce line leaders on their personal development journeys.
• Coaching and delivering products that enable the organization.
• Increase program wide alignment using Scrum and other agile frameworks.
• Help the team identify impediments and suggest ways to remove dependencies.
• Foster strategic relationships within the team, program and wider in the GT organization.
• Facilitating, evaluating and guiding Scrum team and multi team events.
• Mentor the team on agile values, principles, and practices.
• Help guide the team on how to use Agile to delight customers.
• Guiding the team on how to become self-organizing.
• Support the team in their continuous improvement journey.
• Partner with the business agility coaching team assess the agile fluency, health and maturity of the team and coach to higher levels, at a pace that is sustainable.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Track and socialize metrics that help the team learn and grow through continuous improvement.
• Help identify educational opportunities for the team and their stakeholders and partner with the business agility coaching team to offer that training.
• Connect with other Agile and training orgs within the firm to share ideas and collaborate where possible.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience as an Agility Lead / ScrumMaster for at least three years that was diligently applying agile principles, practices, and theory.
• Scrum Alliance CSM certification or Scrum.org PSM I or SAFe SSM.
• Understanding of major agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum @ Scale) and 3 or more years’ experience in at least 1 framework.
• Good skills and knowledge of lean, servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques (example: scrum, Kanban, XP, story mapping, example mapping, transformation plans, operating models, scaled agile frameworks).

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):

• Experience in playing the Agile Guide, ScrumMaster or RTE role in a SAFe program.
• SAFe SA, SSM, LeSS practitioner, or other Scaling certificate/experience.
• Scrum Alliance ACSM or CSP-SM or Scrum.org PSM II or PSM III.
• Product Owner Certification such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM or PSPO.
• Awareness or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Mobbing, etc.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.