Agile Coach

3 weeks ago

Pune, India NielsenIQ Full time

Job Description

At NIQ, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of cross-functional collaboration and high engagement. As an Agile Coach, you will be pivotal in creating dynamic, high-performing, safe environments that are both focused and adaptive, helping us discover and deliver the best and earliest value to our customers and stakeholders. You will be building out our agile practice alongside other Agile Coaches, RTEs and Scrum Masters in a Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence and deliver against our strategic transformation goals.

Your Responsibilities

Facilitate the growth of high-performing teams and team-of-teams by fostering a collaborative culture and enhancing team dynamics. Drive tangible improvements in business performance, product quality, and strategic alignment by focusing on outcomes over outputs. Promote a mindset of continuous learning and improvement, adapting coaching strategies to meet team and organizational maturity levels. Deliver a variety of learning formats (trainings, workshops, community-driven learning, coaching techniques to grow people into agile roles and lean-agile competency ( Product Owners, RTEs, engineers etc.)  Address organizational impediments and enhance agile practices, ensuring high-quality product increments. Lead and synchronize organizational Release Trains, contributing to and occasionally leading Program Increment (PI) planning. Champion and embed agile values and principles across the organization, ensuring they resonate even in resistant environments. Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, and Data Science to cultivate integrated practice excellence. Support the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) by contributing to a consistent yet adaptable agile approach across global teams. Engage and align leadership to deepen their commitment to agile transformation.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field. Over 15 years of experience in IT, with substantial experience in software development. Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach (3+ years), with proficiency in leading Agile Release Trains. Expertise in a variety of agile frameworks and tools (, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP). Strong facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills to guide teams and stakeholders through complex transformations. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of working with diverse teams and driving organizational change. Certified SPC (SAFe 5 or above). Knowledge of tools like JIRA / Structure / Confluence / PowerBI / Miro 

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

Knowledge of TDD, BDD, DevOps. Experience in distributed Agile environments.  Experience in data-heavy contexts (data science, AI/ML, data platforms, analytics, decision intelligence) and related patterns ( MLOps) Knowledge of teaming and collaboration patterns ( Team Topologies) Experience in working in a Lean-Agile CoE (LACE) or similar

Additional Information

Our Benefits

Flexible working environment Volunteer time off LinkedIn Learning Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. 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. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: 

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