Lead Agile Coach Remote - US

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Description

The Lead Agile Coach Coaches, educates and mentors organizational leaders and their teams to instill a scaled, successful enterprise-wide adoption of Agile methodologies and practices including Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Lead Agile Coach works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

Responsibilities

The Lead Agile Coach work includes creating tools and leading training sessions to demonstrate how leaders and associates will apply Agile methodologies in their day-to-day work. The job guides an organization through the transition and drives continued adherence to optimal Agile work practices. Promotes a culture of innovation by implementing Agile processes and principles which include techniques to increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and velocity. May provide on-going iteration management for high profile initiatives to provide real-time coaching as well as to gather and share Agile best practices across the enterprise. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks, and works under minimal supervision, Uses independent judgment requiring analysis of variable factors and determining the best course of action.

Responsibilities:

As a Lead Agile Coach, you blend deep Agile expertise with a passion for constant improvement through coaching, mentoring and guiding leaders, teams, and individuals to continuously evolve their Agile approach and way of working. You will enable Agile leaders and teams to achieve their full potential to deliver value by acting as a change agent, role model, and teacher and will support them as they continue to mature and evolve their understanding and application of Agile principles, practices and behaviors (e.g., leadership, scrum, MVPs) across their organizations, trains, and teams.

The Agile coach is a trusted advisor highly skilled at coaching, consulting, mentoring, influencing, and challenging teams, leaders and associates at all levels of the organization on behavioral changes that will deliver continuous improvement and increased value

You assess Agile health and maturity and use this to inform your coaching, mentoring and development approach

You bring strong external experience into Humana to enable continued evolution of practices

You are flexible in your approach and share innovative and creative thinking as you mentor teams and associates through solving problems to deliver increased value - you value Agile frameworks but are able to meet the clients where they are

You possess strong emotional intelligence (EQ)

You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching

You demonstrate strong facilitation and training experience

You are skillful in your consulting engagements

You are an effective communicator

You influence others in order to stay aligned up, down and across the organization

You lead by example and demonstrate an Agile mentality in your day-to-day work

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree and 8 years of technical experience as a coach, or equivalent and 4 years of project leadership experience

Must have a current SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5) certificate

Additional Information:

Will report to the Associate Director, Portfolio Management, IT TA - Portfolio and Project Management

Qualified candidates will receive a video assessment from Modern Hire (Montage) for additional screening via text message. You will have 72 hours to respond. Thank you for participating.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com