Agile Coach

Company Description

We’re Vialto Partners, and we are on a mission to help companies design new work and mobility policies to meet the challenges of flexible work arrangements, attracting global talent in the right location, and other global mobility challenges.

In Technology & Digital (T&D), we build and innovate solutions that create more connected, integrated, and efficient logistics for the evolving global workforce management space.

**Job Description**:
Overall, this position will work closely with the Senior Director and key stakeholders
to lead us in co-creating an operating model that supports our complex work. The
Agile Coach is responsible for coaching and mentoring with the overall goal of
organizational transformation to agility and should be comfortable working at all
levels of the organization. The Agile Coach is an expert in lean/agile practices and
one or more knowledge domains (i.e., technical, business, organizational) while
having solid skills in facilitation, mentoring, training, and professional coaching.

Individuals in this role leverage their organizational design and development
expertise to assess program teams for health. As an Agile Coach, your purview is
multi-team, and you strive to integrate the agile development process at the
enterprise level. You can quickly understand where teams are in their agile
transformation journey and offer the right approach to support their growth, serving
as a change agent/catalyst, championing innovation, and driving process
improvement. You are hands-on and hyper-focused within and across teams to
correct significant issues with Agile execution. In addition, you'll partner with
leadership to lead Technology & Digital (T&D) programs in support of Vialto's
strategic plans.

**In this role you will**
- Works as an advisor, coaching leaders teams on how to adapt agility to the environment.
- Helps design and implement an effective Agile transformation for the organization.
- Guide change management by identifying potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance and develop specific plans to mitigate and address concerns.
- Provide education, guidance, and recommendations to agile team members, architects, management, and business partners by clarifying roles and responsibilities and offering support as necessary.
- Assesses the agile maturity of the teams and organization and coaches the
- team(s) and organization to higher maturity levels at a sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and organization.
- Establishes and guides the organization to take a holistic view of agile metrics, beyond development and delivery to customer outcomes and business impact.
- Maintains information radiators and team tools.
- Helps set up the Agile COE within the Vialto organization with agile best practices. Stays well-informed with best practices and helps with their implementation at Vialto.
- Collaborating with D&T Leadership, manages and drives the overall Agile strategy and roadmap and fosters an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
- Drives the change process for both process and people (i.e., helps others understand the need for change with a bias toward action, clarifies the future state, gains buy-in, brings visibility to and celebrates the small wins, and institutes the new behaviors).

**Qualifications**:

- Has strong organizational change management skills.
- Typically possesses 8+ years of combined business and/or technology experience within an Agile environment.
- You have 6+ years of experience collaborating effectively with creatives, engineers, and business people.
- Has at least 1 certification as a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) certifications are required.