At Devoteam, we deliver innovative technology consulting for business.

As a pure player for Digital Transformation of large organisations across EMEA, our 8,200+ professionals are dedicated to ensuring our clients win their digital battles. With a unique transformation DNA, we connect business and technology.

Present in 18 countries in Europe and the Middle East, and drawing on more than 25 years of experience, we shape Technology for People, so it creates value for our clients, for our partners and for our employees.

Location:
Home working is currently the preferred model.
You are also welcome at the Devoteam UK office in central London.
You will be expected to visit UK-based clients at their respective locations, as appropriate and when possible.

Overview of the role
Devoteam’s mission is to “Empower clients to imagine and realise better change”. In Business Consulting we strive to deliver business outcomes our clients want. To deliver an enduring transformation we must look beyond technology and into the culture, people, data and processes that complement it. This is a new role that has opened within our Business Consulting practice and will work closely with our client account and portfolio teams. We are seeking an individual with a proven history of working with large Enterprises to support their transformation to more Agile ways of working following industry recognised best practice.

Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an experience Agile Coach and or a Business Agility Coach. You will work within one or more significant key accounts alongside account directors and portfolio teams.

You will be passionate about driving cultural and operational change within large complex enterprises but be sensitive to a balanced articulation of agile ways of working where organisations require time to make the journey.

·       You will help create sustainable and enduring processes and practices through coaching, education, and knowledge elevation within client Enterprises.

·       You will interact with senior leaders to create and nurture a lean-agile mindset and culture shift in their organisation

·       Yours will be a key role in shaping long term strategy across the client organisations in partnership with Devoteam Business Consulting

Experience

·       Agile Coaching 3+ years.

·       Beneficial experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Business Transformation 2+ years

·       Strong Mentor, Leader, and Coach 5+ years

·       Experience with scaled agile in complex environments (SAFe, LeSS, Spotify) 2+ years

·       Management of change in complex environments

·       DevOps experience beneficial 2+ years

·       Knowledgeable in common standards such as SCRUM, Kanban, Lean, DevOps, SAFe

·       Demonstrable experience with senior stakeholder management

·       Ability to influence senior leadership and articulate value from established business and delivery processes

·       Ability to inspire and enthuse multiple teams in Agile ways of working

·       A communicative, assertive, and analytical player

·       Has worked in a consultancy model

·       Experience with Jira and Confluence

What You Will Need to do

·       Support squads with the adoption of Agile methods

·       Facilitate maturity of role-based competencies in squads

·       Champion the use of leading indicators and other objective measures of success

·       Develop coaching plans for maturing role-based competencies and agree them with squad members

·       Facilitate learning and development through individual and group sessions in service of delivering the outcomes of the coaching plans

·       Where applicable, develop content and deliver bite sized ongoing learning in service of delivering outcome of the coaching plans

·       Expert facilitation and workshop skills (not just a delivering power-point presentations)

·       Coaching certification, as evidence of continued professional development

·       Facilitate PI-Planning including pre and post activities.

·       Part of the wider agile community (MeetUp groups, blog posts etc)

EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by powerful technology and an international team of experts. EcoVadis’ sustainability scorecards provide companies with actionable insight into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

EcoVadis offers an exciting opportunity to grow your career while positively impacting the sustainability practices of companies around the world.

Learn more about our team and culture on ecovadis.com/careers. 

Ask your questions directly to our employees on the insiders platform

EcoVadis is currently seeking a motivated Senior Agile Coach to join our Lead Agile Coach and form a dedicated expert coaching team. If you’re seeking a position with immense growth potential where you can make a difference and influence the way how the company is organized look no further. 

As a Senior Agile Coach you will be helping teams and individuals in the organization to realize and act on their potential by providing visibility and transparency of processes, preparation and facilitation of key ceremonies and coaching and training of people by hands on exercises and workshops that form a deep Agile understanding with the aim of enabling the highest possible value delivery to all company customers and stakeholders.

You will be establishing and promoting radical transparency with relevant organizational and product metrics and team health visualization tools.

You will be helping with preparing and facilitating product and feature kick-off workshops and scaled high level ceremonies in a scaled setup with multiple teams and help form the decisions around the scaling operating model.

You will be preparing training materials, exercises, workshops and knowledge sharing sessions and execute those to help create a deep understanding of Agile and enable teams and individuals to effectively implement Agile practices on a daily basis.

You will be advising, coaching, training, and facilitating best practices in various disciplines (e.g., understanding the customer needs, product discovery and kick-offs, incremental and early delivery, team effectiveness and close cooperation, delivering business and stakeholder value, short feedback loops etc.) and help removing barriers to success.

You will be working hands-on with our product and engineering teams and all relevant stakeholders within the organization, including the sponsors on the highest level of management.

• You have a passion for communication, group dynamics and coaching.
• You proactively raise and resolve issues to drive change.
• You have an insatiable appetite for experimenting, learning new things and improving existing practices.
• You have the patience and discipline to follow complex and long-lasting changes through to a successful end.
• 5+ years working experience as an Agile coach and mentor, who has worked with cross-functional teams 
• You have deep understanding of Agile and Lean concepts and Scaled Agile frameworks and have experience adapting them to local contexts
• You have strong experience with facilitating large product workshops in a scaled environment (multiple teams cooperating on the same product)
• You have relevant certifications as Agile Coach/Practitioner
• You have the ability to work well in an international and multicultural environment in a fast-growing company.
• Fluency in English required.
• Self-driven and team player.

Beginning: ASAP

Full time, hybrid or remote role

Office location: Warsaw, Twarda 18

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Poland is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to change the world.

We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding, mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones.

Our team enjoys the benefits of flexible working. Some of us work from home and some prefer to work from our easily accessible (metro, tram, bus, bike, suburban train) office hub in the heart of Warsaw. We have regular onsite and online team breakfasts. Our CSR team coordinates events where we can give back to local communities and ecosystems. At the office you can chill in break areas, enjoy a panorama of Warsaw or visit our lovely terrace.

EcoVadis will support you with all the necessary office equipment, holidays in line with Polish labor law, optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance, Multisport card, French or Polish classes as well as a lunch card. Everyone at EcoVadis can also use a community service day when volunteering.

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV and cover letter / portfolio with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring capable people, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity and inclusion and does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.

A Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions (korábban IT Services Hungary, ITSH) Magyarország legnagyobb IKT-munkaadója, a Deutsche Telekom Csoport tagja. A 2006-ban alakult, több mint 5000 fős cég az informatikai és telekommunikációs szolgáltatások széles körét nyújtja. A vállalat 2019-ben elnyerte a Nemzeti Befektetési Ügynökség (HIPA) legjobb oktatási együttműködésért járó díját, a PwC Magyarország független felmérése alapján a legvonzóbb magyarországi munkahelyek közé tartozik, és a legetikusabb multinacionális vállalat címét is megkapta. A cég folyamatosan fejleszti négy – budapesti, debreceni, pécsi és szegedi – telephelyét, és várja képzett informatikai szakemberek jelentkezését a csapatába.

As an Agile Expert you advise and coach agile teams managers in the complex service area (challenging team constellations and environments) on the introduction and application of agile methodologies. You communicate agile values, principles and practices in the team, you enable continuous agile skills development.

Your main tasks are:

• You enable the team to work in a self-organized and independent manner and - as part of the team - you participate in problem handling (in a complex environment) and where issues of methodology are concerned you assist in joint decision-making
• You facilitate workshops, including overcoming obstacles and manage conflicts
• You adapt agile methods in relation to specific use cases and requirements and apply creative techniques
• You are involved in the continuous optimization of processes and associated methods in an agile context and act as a specialist contact for other agile experts

You have a degree agilor a comparable qualification and a work experience of several years in the field of agile work or as a SCRUM master.

In addition you are characterized by the following knowledge and skills:

Expert knowledge in agile methodologies, agile values, principles and practices

Expert knowledge in creative techniques

Excellent knowledge in optimization of processes

Further skills:

• e.g. Scrum, Lean, Kanban would be good
• Knowledge further skills like LeSS and SAFe desirable
• Experience with tools like Jira and Confluence
• Certificate Scrum Master or (first) work experience as a Scrum Master (Experience as a Scrum Master on team level)
• Agile mindset is mandatory
• possibility to join f2f Team meetings one or two times a year
• speaking German would be nice

-Teljesítményarányos bónusz

-Ingyenes sportolási lehetőség

-Cafeteria rendszer

-Szakmai és idegen nyelvi továbbképzések

-Készségfejlesztő tréningek

-Életbiztosítás

-Dinamikus csapatmunka

-Cégen belüli előrelépési lehetőség

-Nemzetközi környezet-Ergonomikus, modern munkakörnyezet

*Remote work opportunity with a preference for candidates primarily located in EST or CST timezones.

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This one goes out to the human humans.

We’re looking for human-centric consultants to join our team at livingHR.

What’s livingHR doing out here in the world?

We humanize work for a living.

Sound bold? That’s fair – but as a team, we feel called to the bold, the lofty, the new. We’re a team of talent, HR, culture, and creative leaders who are making work better by building inclusive cultures, optimized talent, and humanized experiences.

livingHR is looking for a skilled sales leader and relationship builder with an established network to join our team as a Head of Sales (Enterprise). This person will enjoy the success of catapulting our organization’s growth nationally while joining a team of brilliant—and nice—humans who are transforming everyday work as we know it. Together, we’ll use progressive ideas, data, creativity, and, perhaps most importantly, empathy, to spread around a better work experience for all.

You’ll love being part of this team if you love this stuff:

We show up for our people – and our purpose.

We believe in humanity at work, and believe that should start with us. We intentionally and mindfully nurture a culture of belonging that celebrates the value of all humans and advocates for equity and representation. And we know that supporting people’s whole selves is what allows them to do great work.

livingHR will ALWAYS be a place where brilliant work and a meaningful life are encouraged to coexist without guilt. For more about how we make this statement real, check out our culture page and meet our team here: https://www.livinghr.com/our-culture

Our consultants enjoy:

• An incredible amount of autonomy and the flexibility to work from anywhere (home, beach, mountains, space – really, anything goes)
• Telehealth and mental health counseling
• Fun and enriching culture/work environment
• Continual support system of talent leaders and creative minds that have come together to humanize work

As a livingHR team member, we also invite you to join us in taking the livingHR “We Belong” Pledge:

livingHR believes everyone should have access to opportunities and know what it feels like when We Belong. That’s why belonging and celebrating our whole selves has been woven into our Culture Code as an organization since 2009. ​

We believe that in order to support belonging, we must use our voices to advocate for everyone because all groups, races, abilities, identities, genders, religions, and backgrounds deserve:

• Social justice 
• Human rights
• Equity
• Equality
• Representation
• Equal opportunity

As part of the livingHR team, we know bringing humanity to work, celebrating the differences we have as humans, and developing empathetic and inclusive leaders is a social impact that we can create and one that will live on. ​We invite you to join our We Belong pledge so that together, we can:

• Amplify the voices that need to be heard
• Unite in our wildly different personal experiences to bring together open minds and encourage innovation
• Live boldly into our truths, bringing our whole selves to the work we do and the team we do it with
• Act with consideration for people, without exception
• Learn from and celebrate the life stories that build our awareness and allow us to think beyond self

A day in the life could look like:

• Working directly with the executive leadership team of livingHR and our clients to offer guidance related to leadership development, communications, and culture strategies and solutions  
• Using personal experience to coach leaders on goals, achieving development objectives, and improving self-awareness 
• Adopting a range of coaching styles to fit the individual needs of executives from different backgrounds and with different skill-sets and methodologies 
• Building, coaching, and mentoring a team of employees and consultants  
• And most of all, are committed to making an impact on our client's bottom-line and giving a roadmap to creating AMAZING places to work   

We’d love it if you:

• Want to make a difference in the lives of humans at work
• Have previous experience in an executive level position within companies of varying size, industry, and sector
• Partner closely with executive leaders to drive ideation, development and delivery of internal communications, leadership development, and organizational culture 
• Make key contributions to the thought leadership of the agency, elevating ideas and progressive practices 
• Move fast to engage and influence leaders, navigate ambiguity, thrive in a collaborative environment, build strong relationships across the agency and with our partners and clients, and execute effectively  
• Are agile and jump on opportunities to do better, operating at the pace of an agency  
• Strive to build genuine relationships, maintain a strong rapport, and connect with all clients, team members, partners, vendors – people in general  
• Technically savvy and digitally fluent (a MUST)  
• Excellent ability to build rapport and establish/strengthen client relationships  
• Well-organized and able to meet deadlines  
• A good human who cares about all humans  

What Now?

Well, if this sounds like a great opportunity for you, we hope you’ll apply to join us.

Step 1: Click that “apply” button at the bottom of this page.

Step 2: Share your “why” for joining us to accompany your “on paper” self. We’d love to see some work samples, hear some life stories, get to know the real, whole, entire you through this process. If you need assistance or accommodations with this application, we’re here and so happy to help. Contact us at [email protected]

Step 3: One of the very nice humans on our team will reach out to you to confirm best next steps. Candidates who move forward in this process will likely start with a virtual interview via Zoom. This virtual interview could be with one or two livingHR team members and we’ll seek to truly get to know one another, share more about the opportunity, and answer any questions you have.

Step 4: We will provide transparent and timely communication as we go as the process looks a bit different for each role. We can’t wait to learn more about you!

Snow Software is the global leader in technology intelligence solutions, ensuring the trillions spent on all forms of technology is optimized to drive maximum value. More than 4,000 organizations around the world rely on Snow's platform to provide complete visibility, optimize usage and spend, and minimize regulatory risk. Headquartered in Stockholm, Snow has more local offices and regional support centers than any other software asset and cloud management provider, delivering unparalleled results to our customers and partners.

Remote Europe

The agile coach exists to help Snow build on and evolve our existing working practices and create real organizational understanding and competitive advantage from agile working practices and principles.

The role holder will analyze existing ways of working and implement improvements to help streamline processes and maximize our ability to deliver efficiently.

They will coach and mentor leadership, teams, and individuals on adopting these improvements, and guide our people to figure out the best solutions for their specific challenges.  They will play a key role in measuring delivery across the teams, contributing to a data driven culture that will let us understand our velocity/throughput and monitor the impact the changes we make are having.

• Lead development and adoption of a global agile framework that will be applied across all teams, from backlog creation to delivery of products and services.
• Effectively communicate agile principles and overall operating model across the organization.
• Facilitate learning, development and continuous improvement through individual and team coaching.
• Coach senior leadership in agile practices to ensure the adoption of best practices and data driven decision making from the top down.
• Identify and mitigate issues as the organization’s agile process evolves.
• Demonstrated experience building and implementing agile methodologies within a global organization.
• Experience leading organizational change.
• Communicating and influencing behaviours across multiple levels and functions.
• Evangelizing agile methodologies to the team.
• Using data to measure the impact of changes and facilitate roadmap estimation.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, etc. frameworks for scaling agile.
• Pragmatic view on agile process – adopts process to suit an organization’s needs rather than dogmatically applying a methodology.
• A passion for delivering customer value in a timely fashion without compromising delivered quality within a commercial organization.

This is a chance for you succeed in an environment where you will have the ability to make a daily impact. Every day you will get to work alongside collaborative and approachable colleagues who are dedicated and ambitious. We fully recognize that it is our employees that make Snow a success - the world's largest enterprises and most trusted institutions use Snow to optimize their software, applications, hardware and cloud investments.  Here at Snow, our entire team is focused on the success of our customers. We believe that a single platform, built from the most innovative products, can revolutionize our industry. Today, IT leaders have a unique opportunity to transform and protect their organizations, and we are here to help.  Ready to work at the edge of innovation.  If so, we are hiring future-focused and customer-centric team players all over the world.

#LI-IG

OUR COMPANY
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is a portfolio of five global, renowned lifestyle brands: Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie kids, Hollister, Gilly Hicks and Social Tourist. We reach customers across 120+ countries and strive to create inclusive, welcoming, omni-channel experiences for our global customers.

OUR VALUES
How do we do it? Every day, our associates show up and empower one another to stay curious and think big. As a team of relentless innovators, we aren’t afraid to dream boldly. We are accountable and aim to the highest caliber to understand, push boundaries and embrace change. We coach, mentor, care, and bring our best selves every day because we are in this together. Whether you lead yourself, a team, or the company, everyone is a leader at A&F. 

We are seeking an exceptionally talented Agile Coach to help transition our business from its existing practices to infusing more agile way of working.  Through servant leadership, you will coach, mentor and guide our teams to figure out the best solutions for their specific challenges.  You will help implement improvements in our processes and create efficiencies.  You will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the organization, helping our teams to deliver better outcomes for our customers.  

The ideal candidate has a combination of technical and leadership skills and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that is team centric and highly collaborative.  We are looking for candidates who have a proven track record of being innovative and effective coach and teacher in a variety of organizations.  The candidate will be an experienced Agile practitioner, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills and a visible drive to make a difference. The candidate will be responsible for transformation of new teams on the Agile roadmap as well on ongoing coaching and skill uplift to existing teams within the organization. 

What will you be doing?

• Work with core and supporting teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices
• Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met 
• 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
• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices
• Model servant leadership in a highly collaborative and fast paced environment

What will you need to bring?

• 5+ years IT experience in a software development environment.
• 2+ years of Agile Coaching experience
• Must possess a BA/BS in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Must have experience managing and coaching direct reports.
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
• Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments 
• Must have exceptional written and verbal communication and time management skills.
• Must be self-motivated with a proven ability to identify priorities and mobilize initiatives to achieve desired results with minimal supervision.
• Must be effective and efficient in identifying and proposing creative, innovative solutions to complex, time-critical challenges.
• Must possess excellent situational awareness and an ability to remain calm under pressure and lead teams through ambiguous situations and rapid change
• Leverage “management by walking around” to cut through lines of vertical communication, emphasizing the importance of interpersonal contact, building trust and relationships, open appreciation and recognition, making work less formal and increasing team motivation.
• Demonstrated ability to build business relationships and gain the trust of others, while embracing and delivering constructive feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate, mitigate, and resolve conflicts across workgroups
• Excellent team building, group facilitation and coaching skills
  •    Excellent interpersonal skills including organizational, issue resolution, and customer relationship management skills and an ability to work with diverse personality types 
• Uncompromising honesty and transparency
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent with active participation in the Agile community
• Preferred to have experience in a retail environment
• Preferred to have experience with distributed development teams which span multiple geographies, time zones and cultures

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

This position is not open to applicants residing in or otherwise based in the State of Colorado.  The work location is flexible if approved by the Company, except that the position may not be performed remotely from within the State of Colorado.

At IFS you will work in a growing, global enterprise software company built upon committed and empowered colleagues who come to work knowing they are making a difference. We work everyday with customers who continue to challenge their markets and competitors. As a challenger ourselves, we partner with our customers to guide them through their digital transformations and extract the most value out of our software solutions. We take pride in ensuring that our employees are able to achieve the company goals as well as develop their career. We believe empowered autonomy, committed colleagues and being part of a winning team are the keys to our success and what makes us great! We are #ForTheChallengers and if that resonates with you, we would love to hear from you!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We are looking for an Agile Coach with a focus on engineering practices and ways of working to join our central COE of engineering team within RnD. The purpose of the central practice is to enable the R&D organization to create, maintain and rollout high-quality world-class products by facilitating common infrastructure, aligned ways of working and timely communication across our quality framework. 
By joining IFS as a Agile Coach, you will have the opportunity to work with many stakeholders across the R&D organization as you drive the improvements through our engineering practices and ways of working and in doing so support our DevSecOps transformation. This role will grow in capacity to lead the engineering practices and processes within the organization.
You should be able to:
•    Work closely with the Director of engineering excellence to drive the adoption of Agile Engineering best practices and processes within R&D
•    Facilitate running programs of work to help drive an agile culture with an eye of continuous improvements.
•    Cross team and organizational delivery governance - developing and progressing our approaches for agile governance across large programmes and multi-team initiatives. Defining and developing agile processes and ensuring buy-in from all stakeholders.
•    Business agility - providing strong agile leadership to the entire organization, influencing and growing the culture of agility across the whole company, breaking down silos and improving transparency. You'll work closely with our Leadership Team and other senior stakeholders to continuously improve our organizational effectiveness.
•    Coach our teams on agile approaches - supporting our SSDP and our efforts to grow and nurture an engineering first culture by providing mentoring and coaching of best practice agile engineering practices to the teams and their direct reports
•    Monitoring and reporting on agile adoption- Create reports and visibility of the adoption of our SSDP and its success criteria throughout the business
•    Leading a team of agile practitioners who will help teams improve collaboration, reduce impediments, increase speed of decision making and agile tooling process owners.
•    Managing a team to creating central documentation around the engineering practices discipline
•    Support the community of engineering excellence (agile and lean ways of working)
•    Work with the Director of Engineering excellence to grow the team’s capability to support engineering discipline within IFS
•    Defining a strategy to identify and implement processes and methods of Agile ways of working with R&D
•    Supporting the engineering excellence functions to be the Practice lead for all engineering disciplines within IFS
•    Defining improvements to ways of working through use of tools like JIRA/Confluence and helping the business adopt new/central workflows. 
•    Day to day running of a team of JIRA admins to work with the business to implement changes to workflows, Jira changes
•    Working alongside of the Adoption Excellence team a team to deploy the 7 stage Development process as a stakeholder and process owner
•    Take ownership of OKR goal setting structure ensuring this method of goal setting & performance management is effective across the organization.

Personal attributes:
•    Be credible and influential across departments as a SME within the discipline
•    You will need to demonstrate experience of overseeing large multi-team deliveries in an Agile environment and strong line management.
•    Coaches and leads teams in agile and lean practices. Is an advocate in these approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the teams. Creates/tailors news ways of working and is always innovating.
•    Has a deep knowledge of and leads a range of agile and lean tool’s
•    Able to solve and unblock problems 
•    Has a deep knowledge of different phases of product delivery to be able to make recommendations for change.

To be successful as the Head of Agile Delivery having a positive attitude and a “can-do” mindset is key. We expect you to “think outside the box” and be a front runner when it comes to challenging status quo in the strive for improvements.

We are interviewing over November/Dec if you are interested please submit your application.  For any questions please contact [email protected]

Writing the future. Together. 

Avaloq is a value driven, fast-paced financial technology and services company and we are committed to developing the banking solutions of tomorrow. 

By joining Avaloq, you’ll become a key part of our effort to power the digital transformation of the financial services industry. Our ambition is big and bold – to provide full end-to-end digital solutions by combining our leading efficiency with a flexible, responsible digital user experience. Headquartered in Zurich, Avaloq has over 2,000 employees globally. More information is available at www.avaloq.com  

Your team 

You will be a thought partner to Product Owners and teams, supporting them in identifying solutions to obstacles as they arise. You will regularly assess team’s agile maturity, which will inform the development approach you chose, design and implement in collaboration with Chapter Leads and Scrum Masters to support teams. You will help strengthen agile practices and playbook, and you will be a champion for agile culture, mindset and behaviors at Avaloq.

Your mission

• Be a strong change agent and influence mindset and behaviours, including those of senior leaders
• Support people to adjust to and embrace changes to their ways of working
• Embed agile principles across the whole division
• Apply innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done
• Collaborate with other Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters
• Providing training and resources to equip Product Owners and team members with practices to enhance their agile maturity

What you need

• Deep background in coaching and developing people and teams
• Experience working with or in Agile teams and understanding of Agile practices
• A desire and openness to learning and continuous improvement
• Courage to challenge and advise various stakeholders, including Senior Leadership
• Excellent communications and people-interaction skills
• ICF certification (preferably PCC) and agile certifications (PSMI, CMS or similar)
• Experience as a software engineer or any other role in Agile Teams
• Experience providing training for Teams, Scrum Masters, stakeholders and management

Now let's talk about perks and compensation

We offer high flexibility in regards to working models (home office set up at the moment). Our base salaries are competitive and if you prove to be a superstar, you might even be entitled to an extraordinary achievement reward. Avaloq aims to share its success with all its employees by paying out “Success Share Units” depending on its performance in a given year.

At Avaloq we embrace diversity, we embrace difference. We are whole-heartedly committed to equal employment opportunities and we foster an inclusive culture where everyone’s' contributions are valued and their voices are listened to. We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other fascinating characteristics that make us different. Please note that our job descriptions are intended to be written in an inclusive and gender neutral language.

Don’t be shy – apply!

Please only apply online, preferably with pdf documents.

Note to Agencies: All unsolicited résumés will be considered direct applicants and no referral fee will be acknowledged.

Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. 

Wood Mackenzie values everyone’s contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.

Our core values are:

• Respect for the Individual
• Integrity
• Passion
• Persistence
• Confidence with humility
• Excellence
• Teamwork

We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments.  We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.

Hear what our team has to say about working with us: https://www.woodmac.com/careers/our-people/

Wood Mackenzie is looking for an experienced Agile Coach with excellent problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills to join our industry-leading data analytics company. We are headquartered in Edinburgh where our team is working on a next generation, data analysis & visualization platform utilized by our customer to drive billion-dollar decisions.

Role Purpose 

We are seeking a hands-on, talented Senior Agile Coach to join our dynamic fast paced Product Team.  As a qualified SAFe Program Consultant,  the Agile Coach is responsible for coaching, training and mentoring Product Owners, Technical leads, Team Leads, QA leads and Directors to leverage Scaled Agile principles, practices and frameworks in order to deliver high value business capabilities. You will serve as a subject matter expert on introducing agile and scaling agile across the rest of the product organization. Our Senior Agile Coach will embrace servant leadership and display behaviours that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being agile. We’ll look to you to identify opportunities for continuous operational and/or team improvements.

About the Day to Day Responsibilities of the Role

• Serve as the subject matter expert to instill a culture of measurement with respect to both the impact of the change to the business and the effectiveness of the system of delivery
• Work with teams to assist them in implementing and improving their Agile practices
• Stand up new teams, including providing interactive Agile and ongoing coaching    
• Assess the Agile maturity of the team(s) and coach to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable     
• Facilitate workshop training on the Scaled Agile framework, principles & methods
• Coach teams on how to remove complex roadblocks and impediments to change and delivery
• Drive continuous improvement through transparency, balance, flow, respect, customer focus, collaboration, and agreement 
• Proactively collaborate and communicate with internal and external stakeholders to address Agile knowledge gaps to support Agile effectiveness
• Identify and direct the implementation of process improvements that significantly improve quality across the team, department and business
• Provide subject matter expertise to team members and applicable stakeholders on complex projects for assigned areas of responsibility
• Work with the broader group of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to foster an Agile Community of Practice

The person that fills this role must be a self-starter who is energized by a challenge, passionate about bringing great products to market and love the thrill of creating a new standard for what’s possible.

Skillset

• Expert-level experience working directly with Agile teams on projects as an Agile Coach or SPC in a digital product development environment helping teams efficiently deliver software
• SAFe certifications and experience of implementing SAFe
• Experience of delivering Agile training and facilitation across teams and stakeholders 
• Experience in presenting and discussing to a large audience, including Associate to Senior Engineers, Architects, Directors and VPs
• Experience working with Agile software development methods; Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery, Pair Programming
• Familiarity with the product development lifecycle for enterprise SaaS products
• Ability to understand complex issues quickly to identify value streams and slices
• Strong tactical, strategic thinking, problem solving skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to connect and influence others to achieve team goals
• Ability to coach, lead and motivate diverse project teams and juggle multiple tasks
• Experience with Agile ALM tools such as JIRA.

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All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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As an Agile Coach, you will help our organisation establish an agile mindset, valuable practices and improve collaboration.

You will coach, mentor and guide your colleagues and help them find great solutions for their specific challenges. You will analyze the organization's existing patterns and drive change to help streamline processes and create outcomes. Ultimately, you will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the entire organization, helping our teams to deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.

What you’ll deliver: 

• Work with R&D teams to understand current patterns and interactions, and design a strategy for increasing agile fluency

• Support and guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques and practices, fine-tuning approaches as needed to meet strategic and operational goals 

• Lead and develop new agile workshops for teams as well as key stakeholders

• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, goal setting, focus and accountability

• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry practices

• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching

• Coach teams and management around agile practices and adoption to enable rapid scaling of the organization

• Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization

• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams

• Support and facilitate team meetings and collaboration in order to empower teams and individuals

• Deep understanding of agile principles and mindset

• Experience as an Agile Coach in multiple different teams, cultures and contexts

• Comfortable working with teams, individual contributors, leaders and bigger organizational units as needed

• Large and varied toolbox of exercises, frameworks and approaches for meeting teams where they are

• Ability to identify underlying patterns/dynamics and turning this knowledge into a concrete plan for evolving mindset and interactions

• Knowledge from complementary trainings and courses is a nice to have

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

SmartRecruiters was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Employers in 2020. We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.

As an Agile Coach, you will help our organisation establish an agile mindset, valuable practices and improve collaboration.

You will coach, mentor and guide your colleagues and help them find great solutions for their specific challenges. You will analyze the organization's existing patterns and drive change to help streamline processes and create outcomes. Ultimately, you will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the entire organization, helping our teams to deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.

What you’ll deliver: 

• Work with R&D teams to understand current patterns and interactions, and design a strategy for increasing agile fluency

• Support and guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques and practices, fine-tuning approaches as needed to meet strategic and operational goals 

• Lead and develop new agile workshops for teams as well as key stakeholders

• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, goal setting, focus and accountability

• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry practices

• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching

• Coach teams and management around agile practices and adoption to enable rapid scaling of the organization

• Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization

• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams

• Support and facilitate team meetings and collaboration in order to empower teams and individuals

• Deep understanding of agile principles and mindset

• Experience as an Agile Coach in multiple different teams, cultures and contexts

• Comfortable working with teams, individual contributors, leaders and bigger organizational units as needed

• Large and varied toolbox of exercises, frameworks and approaches for meeting teams where they are

• Ability to identify underlying patterns/dynamics and turning this knowledge into a concrete plan for evolving mindset and interactions

• Knowledge from complementary trainings and courses is a nice to have

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.