Agile Coach

**Job Description**:
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- As an Agile coach at Nielsen, Make a difference by joining a work place where your passion, novelty and teamwork meet to support the most exciting assignments in the Agile world.
- We are looking for an energetic, experienced and a dynamic agile expert skilled in coaching teams of all sizes using a variety of agile approaches, practices, and semantics. In this role, you should be able to establish great team dynamics, create collaborative culture, and help individuals grow within an organization
- Inculcate agile mindset within the team as well as organization through interactions and Coaching
- Should have good understanding of the major agile frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP)
- Should be able to assess the Maturity level of the teams and organization, and coach the team(s) to the next higher level of maturity
- Assess the progress level, identify impediments, organize coaching sessions at team and organizational level
- Act as a change agent in bringing agility in thought process thereby improving agile practices and delivering Quality Product Increment
- Ability to lead Organizational Release Trains, Assist / perform role of RTE / Ability of leading PI planning
- Should be highly proficient in process knowledge, methodologies and People skills to influence teams to create a working environment
- Support implementation of Scrum ceremonies ensuring full teams engagement.
- Support Product Owner on creating the vision for the product.
- Establish a Constructive working relationship with the Product Owner, Development team, Stakeholders and Sponsors
- Identify people within the organization who could actively contribute to the execution of the new processes and practices
- Facilitates the efforts of multiple teams and the greater organization to employ Agile practices that maximize product delivery and value.
- Train and coaches all scrum team members, clarifying roles and responsibilities and offering motivation and support, as necessary.
- Supports Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) within the organization to promote the Agile best practices
- Engage the Leadership team for Agile Adoption
- Knowledge of TDD, BDD, DevOps
- Knowledge of Tools like JIRA / TFS / Rally / Version One

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or related field
- Minimum 15 years of IT experience of working on software development projects in any capacity
- Qualified SPC - 4.0 or above
- Worked as Scrum Master for at least 3 years
- Worked as an Agile Coach for at least 2 years
- Led at least 2 Agile Release Trains using SAFe 4.0 and above
- Worked in at least 2-3 different Agile environment/organizations
- Worked in Distributed Agile environments

Additional Information

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

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We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide.

**About NielsenIQ**

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

Want to keep up with our latest updates? Follow us on: LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

**Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion**

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide.