Job description
Our client is a fast-growing, innovative international Insurance Group with a solid focus on growing the Hong Kong business as the biggest market in Asia across a wide range of insurance products. As part of strategic growth, they are seeking for the Agile Coach.
In this role, you must be assertive about adherence to Agile processes and enthusiastic about Agile practices and their benefits. Being an educators and coach, and thus possess great interpersonal skills, teaching abilities, and a capacity to inspire and motivate. In order to stay ahead, Agile Coache must be self-taught, and they must constantly be updating their information, attending conferences, and continuously learning.
Your primary job responsibilities include:
In this role, you must be assertive about adherence to Agile processes and enthusiastic about Agile practices and their benefits. Being an educators and coach, and thus possess great interpersonal skills, teaching abilities, and a capacity to inspire and motivate. In order to stay ahead, Agile Coache must be self-taught, and they must constantly be updating their information, attending conferences, and continuously learning.
Your primary job responsibilities include:
- Develop, deliver, and/or coordinate with external partners to provide training and workshops on agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SaFe Framework) and practices (e.g., conducting daily stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog management).
- Assess and enhance team agility and maturity by developing coaching plans and conducting maturity assessments.
- Coach individuals and teams (including scrum masters and product owners) to facilitate adoption and improvement in agile methodologies and principles.
- Establish and ensure the adoption of standards, ceremonies, and best practices for agile ways of working.
- Provide guidance and facilitate sprint and release planning sessions and other agile ceremonies as needed.
- Challenge existing workflows and processes and remove impediments to agile teams’ success.
- Facilitate the organization’s transition to a continuous delivery model and adoption of an agile mindset across stakeholders.
- Monitor and communicate progress of agile teams’ key metrics (e.g., OKRs and KPIs) to stakeholders.
- Track metrics to surface potential problems and assist teams in resolving them.
- Champion agile approaches, drive awareness of the agile transformation with the Business Agility Program and gain stakeholder buy-in to expand adoption and support agile approaches.
- Keep up to date with corporate policies, practices, and industry trends concerning agile.
- Participate in the identification, collection, and reporting of agile practice metrics and measurements to track progress.
- Assist with establishing communities of practice and developing a culture of continuous improvement across teams.
- At least 5 years of experience working in an agile delivery environment
- At least 3 years of experience working as an agile coach, scrum master, or equivalent
- Agile certifications (e.g. ICAgile, Scrum)
- Deep expertise in agile methodologies, frameworks, and practices.
- Experience coaching and mentoring individuals and teams and facilitating training sessions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence change and resolve conflict at the leadership and team level.
- Strong problem-solving skills that can be applied to resolve complex business and technical challenges.
- Experience developing and tracking metrics and using them to make data-driven decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
- Familiarity with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
- Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal as well as external groups at varying levels of business and technical knowledge.
