Agile Coach

What You'll Do

What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Delivery Teams (ARTs)
- Work with OCTO (Office of CTO) leaders in Prod Security, Architecture and Reliability Engineering to streamline the flow of their goals to rest of Engineering Dev teams.
- 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 Successful
**Experiences**:

- 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 You

Total Rewards

In 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: Avalara North America

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve 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 - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

**We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer