Position: Agile Coach
Company: Astound Commerce
Experience required: 5y
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

**What you will be doing:**

**Project Teams and Clients Alignment:**
Driving implementation of the Agile Principles on the projects in close cooperation with the Scrum Masters and clients, helping to determine appropriate Agile frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe..etc..) for particular conditions;
Keeping project teams aligned with Agile/Scrum best practices and building effective Agile delivery through continuous teams coaching, and guidance;
Acting as Agile/Scrum tools expert helping project teams to establish right process and allowing them to focus on deliverables rather than administration;

**Leadership/stakeholders Alignment:**
Training key stakeholders throughout the organization on Agile/Scrum for promotion and better adoption to Agile frameworks;
Working closely with various Business Units/department leadership teams to establish or improve the Agile practice across the whole organization;

**Agile Community:**
Leveraging the Agile community to bring best practices and techniques to the organization;
Being dedicated and focused on continuously improving Agile/Scrum processes to empower teams to work in self-organized manner and driving higher productivity across the organization;
Participating in creation and maintenance of Agile process documentation;
Taking part in Scrum Masters hiring;
Coaching Scrum Masters, assisting in resolving issues related to Agile processes.

**What we’re looking for:**
2+ years of experience as Agile Coach/Team Coach;
Strong Agile mindset;
Strong knowledge and practical experience of application Agile software development frameworks and processes like Scrum, Kanban;
Good understanding and practical experience with scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, SoS, DaD, Less, Nexus);
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills;
Understanding of cognitive biases in multicultural environment;
Knowledge and experience in facilitation using different techniques;
Formal certification as Scrum Master/Product Owner/Scrum coach;
Fluent written and spoken English.

**Good to have:**
Formal Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) certification;
Ecommerce domain knowledge; 
Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence.

**What’s In It For you:**
Knowledgebase of the world’s largest ecommerce delivery team;
Training and certifications;
A constant inflow of ecommerce projects with global outreach;
Coaching and reviews to support your career development;
Internal/external engineering and business trainings and conferences and time for self-education;
Extensive technical library with option to order books and English classes;

**Your Work-Life at Astound Commerce:**
Well set SDLC process with use of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall depending on a project;
A network-style culture with geographically distributed teams, easy communications and access to clients;
Possible international on-site visits;
Work-life balance approach and healthy lifestyle programs.