Sr. Agile Coach
- Avalara Technologies
- 8 - 13 years
- Pune
- 21 days ago
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Job Description
What You'll DoAvalara's Agile PMO team is looking for an experienced Sr. Agile Coach to join our Engineering Teams
As an Agile Coach, you will support the Technology group to ensure program teams follow the Agile Process and bring organizational structure, Agile disciplines, and daily operational management to the teams. You will also be partnered with multiple Agile teams on ensuring a smooth delivery of their release efforts. You will promote Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams, collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the Transformation Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization. You will be reporting to Sr Director, Technical Program Manager
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
Responsibilities
- Work with leaders in Prod Security, Architecture and Reliability Engineering to improve the flow of their goals to rest of Engineering Dev teams.
- Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Technical Program Teams
- Understand Team goals and partner with TPMs in Lean Portfolio Management Road mapping, within Teams and across multiple dependent teams
- As a hands-on Agile Coach for 10+ teams in the Program, improve proper framework adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process
- Coach Scrum Leads to help build both next-generation products and maintain the current product line
- Understand the domain of large software
- Perform Agile project management on large software
- Ensure partner management
- Partner with TPM to facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Business units
- Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and agree on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results, and deliverables.
- Identify opportunities where AI can reduce waste, simplify workflows, and optimize team performance according to Agile principles
- Familiarity with integrating AI within Jira, Confluence, or other Agile tools
What You'll Need to be Successful
Experience:
- 8+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with technical projects
- 5+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management
- 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework
- Experience in Agile transformation
- Technical Understanding of SaaS Product development
- Excellent relationship management
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Miro AI) to enhance team agility, improve SDLC practices, and improve.
- Can coach teams and leaders on responsible, AI adoption in Agile ways of working (e.g., for retrospectives, backlog grooming, documentation, or decision-making support)
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- SAFe Certification
Must have:
- Understand spirit of Agile, Portfolio Management and DevOps practices
- Understand finer nuances of Scrum & Kanban.
- Understand large scale project management.
- Understand release planning, coordination, and management
- Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment
- Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and advanced filters
Preferred:
- Drove large-scale Agile framework adoption in medium-large program
This is a remote position.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Project & Program ManagementRole Category: Technology / ITRole: Principal Program ManagerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Avalara TechnologiesLocation(s): Pune+ View Contact
Keyskills: Agile SaaS Product development ChatGPT Miro AI SAFe framework GitHub Copilot
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