Lead Agilist aka - Agile Ninja

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Description

The Lead Agilist will join the portfolio management team and serve as a catalyst for identifying and applying new ways of working. This person will be responsible for optimizing the flow of value throughout the portfolio through the enablement of lean practices and an agile environment within ATX. This role will promote a culture of innovation by implementing agile processes, principles and light weight-governance, including approaches to increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and velocity. The Lead Agilist's role is a strategic one that fosters organizational agility by leading transformation of processes and methods within the organization's core business.

Responsibilities

Position Overview

Humana is a Fortune 50 market leader in integrated healthcare whose dream is to help people achieve lifelong well-being. As a company focused on the health and well-being of the people we serve, Humana starts from within, and is committed to providing progressive benefits that advance the employment experience and vitality of the associate community. Through offerings anchored in a whole-person view of human well-being, Humana embraces a focus on stimulating positive individual and population changes while nurturing a sense of security, enabling people to live life fully and be their most productive.

Against that backdrop, Humana is seeking a Lead Agilist (aka - Agile Ninja) to join the Associate Technology Experience Team (ATX). This team has a strong focus on associate experience and technology modernization but also a focus on culture and operations - to embrace modern cloud-based technologies and engineering, agile ways of working & agile methodologies, DevOps, and a culture that is focused on enterprise leadership, our customers and our associates.

The Lead Agilist will join the portfolio management team and serve as a catalyst for identifying and applying new ways of working. This person will be responsible for optimizing the flow of value throughout the portfolio through the enablement of lean practices and an agile environment within ATX. This role will promote a culture of innovation by implementing agile processes, principles and light weight-governance, including approaches to increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and velocity. The Lead Agilist's role is a strategic one that fosters organizational agility by leading transformation of processes and methods within the organization's core business.

Responsibilities

Create, maintain, and enhance an Agile Community of Practice

Coach and grow other roles, colleagues, and leaders in becoming better agilists, team members, and leaders

Work with product teams to create the conditions that foster agility while maintaining stability

Think 'outside the box' and look beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities and provide tactical and strategic solutions

Encourage Team Level, program level, and value stream level Continuous Integration and Communities of Practice around SAFe, Agile, and Lean

Be a servant leader with the ability to apply systems thinking and lead an organization through organizational change by gaining trust, respect, and support

Understand when to be a facilitator, coach, teacher, or mentor... recognizing when newer teams need more high-touch attention, and as you empower teams to mature, shifting focus to a broader scope of support

Development and optimization of materials, trainings, coaching opportunities, and related tools to create and advance an Agile environment built on collaboration, communication, visibility, and engagement

Serve across different stages of teams' agile journeys, from introductory training and coaching, to continuous improvement for high-performing teams

Support the adoption of appropriate approaches and techniques that enable agility across teams (e.g. Scrum, Lean thinking, Kanban)

Identify, utilize, and educate around appropriate metrics that enable continuous improvement

Provide strategies for how to decentralize decision making when needed and lessen dependencies on a traditionally top-down approach to decision making

Apply system thinking to surface the bottlenecks and dysfunctions

Facilitate large events /open dialog sessions to enable agility

Collaborate with leaders across the organization to contextually adapt practices and governance that enables organizational agility, including coaching on agile practices

Experience Required

Bachelor's Degree or related experience

6 years of demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master, with progression to a Release Train Engineer or Agile Program Management in a scaled environment or related experience

Have been part of organizational transformations and knows how to incorporate change management techniques effectively

Exceptional leadership skills; knows how to co-create a vision, reinforce it, and align teams, stakeholders, and an organization around that vision

Demonstrated experience with standard software development practices and concepts that support agile methods of work

Experience with tools that aid agile teams (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, collaboration tools, etc), including knowing how to streamline or optimize tools to encourage collaboration and transparency

Experience applying various agile frameworks, philosophies, and techniques (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.)

Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and a deep understanding of facilitation techniques

Demonstrated advanced ability to operate using analytical, critical thinking, organizational, and program management skills

Works effectively in ambiguous situations and environments, and can work with others to reach clarity

Experience in creating Agile training and workshop materials

Supports other Agilists and delivery team members through training, mentoring, and sharing of leading practices

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

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