Agile Coach

What You ll DoJob SummaryAvalara s Agile Enablement Team is looking for an experienced SAFe implementation and Program Delivery Agile Coach to join our Engineering Teams As an Agile Coach you will support the Technology group to ensure program teams follow the SAFe Process and bring organizational structure and Agile disciplines in daily operational management to the teams You will promote SAFe and Agile best practices by educating colleagues coaching teams collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the AET Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization Candidate will be reporting to Sr Director at Avalara What Your Responsibilities Will BeResponsibilities Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Delivery Teams ARTs Understand Our goals and partner with RTEs in Lean Portfolio Management Roadmapping within Teams and across multiple dependent teams As a hands-on Agile Coach for 15 teams and multiple ARTs guide proper SDLC adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process Coach Teams to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line Understand the domain of large software Be able to perform agile project management on large software Ensure of KPI metrics and insights to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira Be able to partner with RTE to facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Business units Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and align on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes results and deliverables Oversee teams Agile health metrics and project needs Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts Facilitate delivery of release train milestones by implementing tools What You ll Need to be SuccessfulRequirements QualificationsExperiences 10 years of total experience in software development 8 years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with highly technical projects 5 years in mid to large enterprise software project management 2 years of implementing or working in SAFe framework Experience in Agile transformation Technical Understanding of SaaS Product development Excellent relationship management Education Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or Engineering SAFe Certification Must have Understand spirit of Agile Portfolio Management and DevOps practices Understand finer nuances of Scrum Kanban Understand large scale project management Understand release planning coordination and management Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment Proficient in Jira Confluence and advanced filters How We ll Take Care of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package paid time off and paid parental leave many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses Health Wellness Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical life and disability insurance Inclusive culture and diversity Avalara strongly supports diversity equity and inclusion and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship Learn more about our benefits by region here What You Need To Know About AvalaraWere Avalara Were defining the relationship between tax and tech Weve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year Last year we became a billion-dollar business and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - theres nearly 5 000 of us now Our growth is real and were not slowing down - not until weve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world Were bright innovative and disruptive like the orange we love to wear It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset It shows off the culture weve designed that empowers our people to win Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them Weve been different from day one Join us and your career will be too Were An Equal Opportunity EmployerSupporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company xe2x80x94 we dont want people to fit into our culture but to enrich it All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion age gender national orientation disability sexual orientation US Veteran status or any other factor protected by law If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know