Agile Coach (Remote)

Job description / Role

What you’ll do

Role Purpose:
– Lead the digital engineering tribe, responsible for identifying, managing, and mitigating agile cross-program risks and issues, in order to facilitate on-time delivery of capabilities and features aligned to the business outcome vision
– Creating and organizing new projects on the JIRA platform, as well as configuring the layout, design, workflow, and dashboard
– Responsible for working closely with the domain or business outcome Product Manager and supporting Product Owners to coordinate delivery of capabilities
– Responsible for defining release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validating readiness before release into production
– Manage planning with business team to ensure deliverables on required time.
– Manage technical teams to ensure delivery of products on time with the required quality
– Act as a technology spoc for chronic problems impacting delivery through technology.
– Responsible for identifying, managing, and mitigating agile cross-program risks and issues, in order to facilitate on-time delivery of capabilities
– Accountabilities, Competencies & KPIs
– Leading demand management for one or more business customers including commercial, Finance and customer care, etc.
– In charge of ensuring smooth application of SW life cycle including business analysis, design, Capacity management, Implementation and testing with direct impact on revenue line.
– Build a relationship with suppliers and service providers to ensures the delivery of the Business plans
– Manage projects end to end to ensure smooth deliver of products
– Structure new squads/tribes based on business demand
– Keep monitoring agile tribes utilization to ensure maximum efficiency
– Manage & Govern rotation exercise in all managed tribes
– Work with agile tribes to deliver their outcome by being the technology support function & escalation point to deliver squad/tribe outcome.
– Work on transformation of remaining business areas to Agile
– Support the mind-set change & culture shift through different activities
– Monitor and optimize agile processes and practices
– Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and team learning

Qualifications
– B.Sc. in communication /computer engineering or computer science
– Agile knowledge is a must
– Jira hands on experience
– Hands-on experience in agile transformation. SAFe knowledge is a plus.
– Project management experience including reporting and process management is a must.
– Broad understanding of telecom and IT applications as well as business areas is a plus
– 8+ years of experience, at least 5 of them in project management , agile or IT in telecom.

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.