Senior Agile Coach

Do you have extensive agile experience and the ability to share your knowledge at all levels of a complex organization? Would you like to be a key driver in a newly started Agile Transformation of a Global IT Project Organization? Then join us as Agile Coach.

The position

As Agile Coach your primary role is to apply your agile capabilities and experience across the organization by coaching and mentoring the pilot projects in agile values, methods and practices. You will support 2-3 agile project teams simultaneously with applying agile ways of working as well as adopting the agile mindset. Furthermore, you will coach Product Owners, Scrum Masters and team members from both inside and outside the Global IT organization. You will support the agile teams with PI planning, daily stand-ups and backlog creation, with focus on building capabilities locally within the teams.

On a broader scale you will act as catalyst for change and ensure commitment and understanding at all levels of the organization. You will coach the agile project teams in conflict resolution and help the team spot and react to anti-patterns. An important part of your job is also to bring back learnings from the pilot projects you coach and share with the other Agile Coaches as basis for on-going development, alignment and further scaling to the remaining part of the IT organization.

Qualifications

You have a Master’s degree in Business, IT or another relevant field and extensive experience working with agile transformations, preferably in large complex organizations. You have extensive hands-on experience as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master and a track record of coaching or leading high performing agile teams. Your agile toolbox is in place and you have solid experience with enabling organizations to succeed with an agile transformation through the application of agile principles. You master various coaching techniques as well as facilitation tools and methods, and you understand the importance of flexibility and change management to succeed with your ideas and beliefs.

You are a team player and build trustful relationships with colleagues and customers naturally. You have drive, the ability to work independently and thrive in a busy and global environment where priorities change and fast decisions are needed to move on. Success in this role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build credibility and engage stakeholders at all levels.

Fluency in both written and spoken English is a pre-requisite.

Start: ASAP
Duration: Six months + option
Work location: Copenhagen Area
Requirements: Min. 5 years of professional IT experience.
Job type: Freelance