Agile Coach

Overview:
Avalara’s Agile PMO is looking for an experienced Program Delivery Agile Coach to join our Engineering Teams

As an Agile Coach, you will be supporting the Technology group to ensure program teams adhere to the Agile Process and bring organizational structure, Agile disciplines, and day-to-day operational management to the teams. You will also coordinate multiple Agile teams’ release and Roadmapping effort. You will be responsible for evangelizing Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams, collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the Transformation Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization.

**Responsibilities**:

- Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Program Teams
- Understand Business goals and facilitate Lean Portfolio Management Roadmapping, within Teams and across multiple dependent teams
- As a hands-on Agile Coach for 15 teams in the Program, drive proper framework adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process
- Coach Scrum Leads to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line
- Understand the domain of large and complex software
- Perform agile project management on large and complex software
- Ensure proactive communication of project status to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira
- Partner with TPM 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.
- Proactively monitor and assess teams’ Agile maturity, health metrics and project needs
- Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts
- Manage release train

Qualifications:
Experiences:

- 10+ years of total IT experience in software development, product management or Business Analysis
- 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, communication, teamwork, and influence skills

**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

Preferred:

- Actively drove large scale Agile framework adoption in medium-large program

About Avalara:
**About Avalara**:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

**Equal Opportunities**: