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Agile Coach – 12 Months Contract –Johannesburg (Sandton)

Job Ref
278582
Job Type
Permanent
Employer Type
Recruitment Agency
Date Added 19 Feb 2019
Expiry Date 19 Mar 2019
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Employer:
E-Merge IT Recruitment

Location:
Gauteng

Salary:
Negotiable

Benefits:


Role details:
We are looking for an energetic Agile Coach who is a generalist; with strong technical background and have worked on deliverable based projects.

Job Purpose:

To support and partner with the newly established an Agile House within the company’s group technology structure to promote collaboration and ensure consistent application of Agile best practices. Provide subject matter expertise (Agile coach) to aid the organization in understanding, using, and internalizing Agile values and practices. Create and support a sustainable the business agility transformation by changing both process & culture, evolving from doing agile (tactical & process-focused) to being agile (strategic & culture/mind-set focused). Support the assessment of the full IT Innovation portfolio and establish a view of candidate projects that can adopt the agile approach. Assist in conducting project suitability assessments to establish fit in terms of project, team, and stakeholders. Conduct skills assessment and identify agile capability/competency gaps for various roles.

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Experience required:

? Knowledge of other Agile approaches: SAFe, XP, Kanban, DSDM, TSP, Crystal, FDD, etc.
? Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD,
Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
? Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
? 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.)
? Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
? Experience playing the Agile Coach / Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
? Previous experience as a team lead
? Excellent consulting, communication and mentoring skills
? Strong development background
? Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development
? Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
? Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
? Understand the basic fundamentals of Process re-engineering
? Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
? Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
? Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
? Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices

Education Requirements:

? Business, IT or Engineering degree.
? Relevant Agile certifications (Agile Project Management registered practitioner, Scrum Product
? Owner, Agile team facilitation, SAFe Agilist)
? Professional Scrum Master level I required
? Professional Scrum Master level 2 preferred
? Process Engineering methods and techniques like Lean, 6 Sigma, Outside In, CMM, Theory of
? Constraints, Root Cause Analysis, etc.
? Membership of professional body/association


If you are ready to take your career to the next level, then this may be the right opportunity for you!

Reference Number for this position is LV40817-2018 which is a contract position based in Sandton offering Rates which are negotiable based on experience.
The time for change is NOW! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates. Email Liza on liza@e-merge.co.za or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!
Do you have a friend who is a technology specialist? We pay BIG CASH to you if we place a friend that you sent us!
“If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within 2 weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position”




 
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