Agile Coach with SAFe and ART experience

Job Mission

The Agile Coach mentors, guides and coaches project teams to become more effective and adaptable in creating high quality products.

Job Description
As a part of the central agile coaching community, the SAFe Coach plays a pivotal role in helping our stakeholders, teams and leadership understand how they can ignite and sustain change in their organization. The SAFe Coach does this by inspiring and creating awareness and understanding of SAFe and deploy cross-sector agile initiatives in their respective departments.

As SAfe Coach you

-Facilitate and inspire change, setup and drive the department change team, help setup vision, define change plan

-Design and setup an Scaled Agile (SAFe) organization

-Identifying Value Streams and Agile Release Trains (ART);
-Creating the Agile transition implementation plan;

-Launching multiple ARTs and value streams

-Preparing for the ART launch;
-Training teams
-Coaching ART execution.
-Extending to the portfolio
-Identify roadblocks in the process and help resolve them
-Measure and analyze metrics for the ART, identify improvements based on data
-Help in setting up tooling, changes in business processes, communication
-Actively contribute to the Agile competence in the PMO organization.
Education
-Master’s degree in a relevant field and the ability to operate on an academic level.
Experience
-5 -10 years of relevant working experience in an international and complex environment
-Experience with design and implementation of complex change and improvement projects
-Professional experience in Scrum, Agile, and SAFe; (SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification is a pre)
-Experience with driving overall SAFe transformations
-Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques – Kanban, User Stories, Continuous Integration, Retrospectives, Pairing, and Agile Games
Personal skills
-Excellent communicator, being able to influence without hierarchical power, and creative in managing a large and diverse range of stakeholders
-Focus on collaboration and results. High focus on developing other people -Maintains personal effectiveness and people focus under pressure, high speed of change and uncertainty
-Ability to guide, coach and advise at all organizational levels to effect sustainable change and improving the project and process maturity level of the organization -Be open, transparent, courageous and express trust
-Creating commitment within the organization
-Being disruptive where needed, breaking ineffective patterns
-Team player, enjoys working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with the ability to work independently
-Facilitation skills.

Other information

The program “Strengthen D&E - Program innovation power” will drive the increase in efficiency of the innovative power in the Design and engineering area. The objective of this program is to simplify interfaces, establish clear module/function ownership in D&E across the lifecycle of products and increase dedication, accountability and dedication in project teams. Implementation of the program is driven by D&E management in cooperation with BL management.
Part of this program is the scale-up of the SAFe
(Agile) framework as the new operating model for specific teams and departments within the PGP environment. In order to execute this transformation D&E needs a team of specialized SAFE/Agile coaches that support the installation of Agile Release Trains.