Agile Coach
Aflac
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Columbus • South Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $135,000 - $170,000 per year
About the role
- Coach teams on Agile/Lean frameworks, practices and processes (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
- Guide Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and team members in their respective roles
- Focused on value delivery and alignment to business goals
- Support Engineering Excellence (QA, DevOps, App Support) initiatives
- Onboarding/upskilling new teams to follow our agile ways of working
- Develop, Refine and Document Agile practices/processes
- Identify and address impediments to agile adoption and implementation
- Define and refine metrics for Digital Services and promote the use of metrics and feedback to drive improvements in team performance
- Provide guidance on Agile tooling to enhance productivity and transparency
- Facilitate area/organization wide discussions/workshops as needed
- Play a leading role in establishing ways of working for multi-team initiatives
- Liaise between development teams and leadership to resolve organization wide impediments
- Develop and deliver Agile/Lean training and workshops
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement for our people
- Facilitate learning and development at our Communities of Practice
- Keep up to date and share industry-wide trends and advancements
- Become an expert in a particular topic e.g. Scaling, Flow, Process, Tooling etc.
- Proactively promote changes to our agile ways of working and tooling
- Communicate changes through appropriate channels
- Curate content to guide our community
- Plan a rollout approach
- Monitor adoption and adapt processes as appropriate
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer science, Information Systems or business administration or related field
- Eight or more years of experience in software product or application development, business analysis or project management
- Four or more years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience working as a Scrum Master on at least three different agile teams
- Certification ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
- LeSS Practitioner
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- prescription drug coverage
- health care flexible spending
- dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
- 401(k) plans
- annual bonuses
- opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays
- up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
- state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked) and other leaves of absence, if eligible
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile frameworksLean frameworksScrumKanbanQADevOpsAgile practicesAgile metricsAgile toolingContinuous improvement
Soft Skills
CoachingFacilitationCommunicationLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingMentoringTrainingAdaptabilityCommunity building
Certifications
ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)LeSS Practitioner