Vacancy title:
Agile Coach

Jobs at:
Bank of Kigali

Deadline of this Job:
31st October 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 16th October 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Key Accountabilities

• Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables your team to excel at agile development.
  
• Facilitate discussion leading to collective decision-making, goal setting and conflict resolution across a digital factory
  continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues
  
• Coaches the Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Tech Leads within the digital factory to focus on delivering incremental business value while sustaining an engineering culture
  
• Facilitates cross-team meetings and helps teams find innovative ways of resolving dependencies and navigating complex business and technical trade-offs.
  
• Engages in problem solving sessions with team leads on how to develop long-term strategies and roadmaps which are congruent with the Agile approach
  
• Conducts training sessions on the fundamentals of Agile with new team members
  
• Communicates the new way of working with groups outside of the digital factory
  
• Engages teams of external dependencies to develop an incremental integration plan
  

Experience

• Strong experience in software design and development
  
• At least 5 successfully delivered projects using Agile methodologies
  
• At least 2 – 3 projects that include an end to end Agile implementation where you played the role of a Scrum Master or Tech Lead. Experience in coaching 1-3 people on each project you have delivered
  
• Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis;
  
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
  
• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach(example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs,etc)
  
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
  

Purpose of the job

• An Agile Coach is responsible for mentoring the key Agile roles within our digital factory, with the goal of improving the quality and efficacy with which products are developed leveraging an
• Agile methodology. Agile Coaches act as a conduit between technology and business to ensure that all voices are being heard.
  

Qualifications

• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent experience
  
• Certified Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner
  

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Agile software development process
  
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired
  Programming, Automated Testing, Agile Games
  
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team