Position: Agile Master / Coach
Company: Volia Software
Experience required: 5y
Category: Scrum Master
English level: fluent
Published: 2023-06-01T00:00:00+03:00

US Company is searching for senior Agile Master & Coach who can organize / improve the Agile process for few teams (mostly in Europe, but there could be 1-2 Toronto based teams). Interesting project (1-2 years), full-time, an official contract. Remote work (or in any of 3 existing offices in Ukraine & Poland).

The product is SaaS, which allows multiple functions for safety and health insurance (works planning / incident management / monitoring & analytics) on high-risky industries: oil & gas gathering and transportation, chemical, building, energy. Is implemented as few services that perform different functions and integrated with each other.

Responsibilities:
* Assessing the Agile Maturity of the squad coaching them to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.
* Conduct training for establishing Agile fundamentals in software development teams.
* Introduce new techniques for retrospectives to keep teams energized and improving.
* Coach leadership and teams in identifying and removing impediments to delivering quality products.
* Lead Agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders.
* Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them.
* Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values. 
* Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization. 
* Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks. 
* Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
* Able to coach our Agile teams in Root Cause Analysis sessions.
* Able to run and coach Agile Product leaders in value mapping sessions.
* Supporting and educating Product Owners, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
* Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. 
* Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. 
* Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. 
* Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. 
* Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

Required skills (must have):
* Scrum/Agile master - 5+ years, preferably on enterprise level projects
* Experience in playing the Agile Coach role for at least three years for a software development team that was diligently applying Agile principles, practices, and theory. 
* Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency. 
* Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Agile approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.). 
* Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
* Being main facilitator of different Agile games/workshops.
* Aware of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, SaFe, etc
* Extremely good spoken and written English
* Following EU business hours with readiness to cover evening hours for Canada based teams

Would be considered as a plus:
* Ability to remain flexible and respond to changing organizational and business demands.
* Any Agile/Scrum Master certifications

Work conditions:
* 100% remote work or in any of existing offices: Kyiv, Rivne, Tychy (PL).
* 2-weeks scrum, 5-6 team members.
* Full-time (40 hours per week).
* Official contract: salary, sick-leave days, holidays, vacations.
* Flexible schedule, adopted to EU business hours.
* 6 months duration with option of prolongation

Interviewing / Hiring process:
Step 1 - preliminary interview (main questions) - 30-40 mins
Step 2 - tech interview with principal engineer - 30-60 mins