Lean Agile Coach - Remote

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Company Overview: Req ID: 330234 NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Lean Agile Coach - Remote to join our team in Remote, Ontario (CA-ON), Canada (CA).

Job Description: Lean Agile Coach - Remote How You'll Help Us:
As an Agile Coach, you will work with Client Delivery Teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and the NTT DATA Business Agility Enablement team to assist with ongoing deployment of Agile practices across clients. You will primarily serve at the team level but will be expected to also inform and interact at all levels of organizations to partner at scale and create buy-in for change.
How We Will Help You:
Joining NTT Data is not only a job, but a chance to grow your career. We will make sure to equip, enable and encourage you with the support of our Business Agility Enablement practice within Launch by NTT DATA. We will help you grow your skills as you engage to grow and deliver increasingly valuable work.
Why the Role Is Important:
You will work diligently as a change agent, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement, experimenting, and challenging the status quo, while carrying a compelling case for change.
In fulfilling this role, you will work directly with teams to listen and observe, empathically co-create value mindsets and lean product delivery. The Agile Coach conveys the fundamentals of agility as presented taught and maintained by coaching stances in training, teaching, mentoring, modeling, facilitating, etc.,
Providing helpful written documentation in context on Agile practices, tools, and techniques are expected. This role is important to support our goal of returning the highest possible value to our businesses and our customers.
Once You Are Here, You Will:
During onboarding, you will connect with our BAE practice as your own NTT DATA support network.
Establish collaborative partnerships with key players in change and guide them through their own Lean-Agile change journey.
Per customer need, you may be asked to establish Lean-Agile Center of Enablement, inform on practice standards in customer context, and instruct practices needed for customer success in their lean-agile. transformation.
Utilize industry best practices in context of the customer (better practices in context
As an Agile Coach, you will interact and inform coaching planning at the Portfolio, Program as well as Team level.
You may be responsible for looking after a team of teams, distributed and collaborating together as one delivery program (Agile Release Train, Cohort, Tribe, Unit, etc), depending on experience and comfort.
May be wearing many hats as you step into mentor and modeler stances and perform or role-play various agile product team roles, including Scrum Master, BA, QA, PO, etc., as helpful.
Required Qualifications:
10+ years' experience across a full development life cycle at leadership level responsibilities.
5+ years' experience in customer-facing interactions where you partnered with stakeholders to guide them through Lean-Agile adoptions.
5+ years' experience comprehending compelling reasons for change and sense of urgency,
5+ years' experience capturing, understanding, and reliably conveying direct business needs and guiding the solutioning of complex problems.
5 + years competency of agile fundamentals such as lean-agile values, principles, and practices. As well, their optimal application and outcomes desired.
Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, or other Agile Certification required.
Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred Skills:
Multiple framework and competency certifications. (Scrum, Scale, LPM/PO, Coach, etc)
Demonstrable leadership skills of communication and influence. Those attributes of championing, uniting, bonding, achieving, guiding, and exciting.
Ability to facilitate and lead meetings to desired outcomes for the purpose.
Ability to lead, train, and provide feedback to other colleagues in various roles, as well as leaders.
Organizational, good time management, balanced attention to help optimize a valued outcome across varying priorities.
Expert experience with one or more common agile application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. (Jira, Jira Align, Azure Dev Ops (TFS) VersionOne, Rally, etc.). More is better.
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC6) Certification (another or more enterprise Agile certifications is helpful.)
Ideal Mindset:
Communication is important. Looking for an empathic, self-aware, introspective person who listens for, questions, and checks assumptions - both others as well as their own.
You seek to understand and be prepared to help team members and others to find their solutions.
Resourceful. As problems arise, you creatively identify the best path forward. Self led. #LaunchJobs #LaunchProduct

About NTT DATA:

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in RD to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com

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