Вакансія Agile Coach (medium seniority)

Revolutionizing business though data science and analytics, Alteryx offers an end-to-end analytics platform which empowers data analysts and scientists alike to break data barriers, deliver insights, and experience the thrill of getting to the answer faster. Organizations all over the world rely on Alteryx daily to deliver actionable insights.

Join our team of passionate and hard-working associates, and help make a difference in people’s lives by facilitation of development of software that enables business users to solve problems using data that were previously thought to be unsolvable, save them days, weeks and months of mundane data prep and blending, and help them truly love their jobs again.

Overview:

The Agile Coach mission is to develop high functioning, efficient, self-organizing agile teams who consistently deliver software of the highest caliber. The candidate should have a broad understanding of software development processes and real-world experience with Scrum and Kanban. The candidate should be skilled in professional facilitation standards and methods; and comfortable and engaging when events such as demos, release planning and retros.

The ideal candidate enjoys being “in the room” directly engaged with, and supporting, their development teams as well as collaborating with their colleagues on the Agile Team. They have a passion for continuous, metrics-driven improvement, and an affinity for life-long learning.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

· Supporting 2-3 Scrum or Kanban teams of various agile maturity levels possibly using different languages.

· Driving delivery through lightweight processes, attention to performance and coordinating efforts across the organization.

· Ensuring that all work is visible to the teams, accurately tracked in our workflow management tool (CA Agile), and regularly prioritized.

· Ensuring the teams spot bottlenecks and works through them, establish and adheres to their team agreements, and are aware of their own performance metrics.

· Facilitating team-level agile ceremonies (planning meetings, backlog refinement, retrospectives, sprint demos, working sessions, etc.).

· Ensuring cross-team coordination via dependency tracking.

· Help the team with proper reporting structure, ensures the reports are delivered on time and in proper manner

Required skills:

· 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Project manager or Agile coach in IT area

· Strong verbal and written communication skills in English - ability to communicate with native speakers over phone

· Hands on experience in the SDLC process, awareness about web-app development process and technologies / trends

· Knowledge of Agile values and principles, Kanban and Scrum process/practices.

· 3+ years degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or related functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.

· Good presentation and facilitation skills.

· Willingness to travel

· CV provided in English

Advantages are also:

· Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or PMI Agile Certified Professional.

· Experience with leading events like Demo, Planning or PI Retros a plus.

· Knowledge of SAFe is a plus

· Project management experience and proven track record is highly appreciated