Senior Agile Coach

Are you looking for a role that doesn’t just pay company bills, it motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth that doesn’t involve working more hours or being forced into “management”? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

A 3Cloud Senior Agile Coach is someone who enjoys continually improving and growing their technical and team collaboration skills. Someone who possesses an independent spirit while relishing the opportunity to work within a team. Someone who is capable of solving the complex, real-world business problems of today through collaboration, leadership and mentorship. If this is a path that excites you, let’s chat! 

Responsibilities

• Actively coaches, teaches, or mentors others throughout their engagements
• Is recognized internally by peers as a thought leader in at least one area of specialty
• Reduces the cost of project startup by supporting technical leads in client-facing delivery responsibilities
• Recognizes strategic opportunities and trends within the client and software industry and supports 3Cloud in leveraging those opportunities/trends
• Willing and capable of significant contributions to engagement planning activities (pre-sales project discovery, estimation, SOW review)
• Uses influence to support sales to make client opportunities within your specialty happen at the client (moving into trusted advisor role)
• Actively develops and practices effective leadership skills through self-directed learning, and by leading/guiding others internally or at clients
• Holds team members accountable for demonstrating 3Cloud delivery standards and Core Values consistently
• Understands and communicates the impact of process/project management decisions on business outcomes
• Works autonomously and successfully in environments with a lot of ambiguity, such as during project launches
• Identifies challenging longer-term goals and breaks those goals down into intermediate, measurable steps
• Proactively gives candid, thoughtful feedback on the performance of team/manager/stakeholder through 1:1 conversations on a regular basis
• Uses knowledge of the motivations of others and client office politics to communicate more effectively and influence others, with support

Requirements

• Holds a relevant certification from a recognized organization (IC Agile, Scrum.ORG, Agile Aliance, etc.), and/or has experience working in an agile role (Scrum master, Product Owner, agile coach/trainer)
• Has experience working both independently and as part of a team
• Can effectively and confidently communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in written form, professional presentation experience
• Enjoys and excels at problem-solving related to processes, workflow, communication and team dynamics
• Has experience with core agile development processes and practices (ex: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
• Has experience with one or more common project management and/or agile planning tools (MS Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.)
• Experience with common office productivity tools (Office, SharePoint, Outlook, Google Docs)
• Experience coaching and/or training teams on core agile development processes and practices (ex: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
• Has identified at least one specialty and is working towards mastery of it while expanding breadth of supporting skills (T-Shaped)
• Coaches/project manages multiple delivery teams effectively on their own
• Understands industry patterns and leading practices. Selects and implements them correctly whenever appropriate
• Recognizes pitfalls and antipatterns within the team or client before they negatively impact the project, and resolves with exceptional problem-solving skills
• Successfully applies agile methodology at scale using an established scaling framework
• Creates measurable impact to client’s/team’s agility
• When something goes sideways at the client, taps into extended network of contacts/resources to resolve

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.