Sr Agile Coach

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Establish a coaching model to drive behaviors across the organization aligned with Lean Agile delivery.
2. Conduct baseline assessments of existing Value Streams and establish growth and change management roadmaps with the goal of establishing and achieving behaviors that focus on critical path to value.
3. Define and track progress toward cross functional effectiveness.
4. Facilitate the establishment of Value Based OKRs for Value Stream and Platform and Enablement Teams providing guidance on how to connect the CareFirst Corporate Strategy to Value Stream execution.
5. Identify coaching opportunities and growth plans for Platform and Enablement teams.
6. Support the Value Streams and their Stakeholders in understanding customers needs and quantifying the underlying value of the solutions delivered.
7. Provide guidance on identifying interruptions to the flow of value.
8. Provide coaching to ensure teams deliver value while meeting quality initiative targets such as defect leakage to production.
9. Establish an approach to provide transparency for Platform and Enablement teams with a consolidated backlog and P&E roadmaps that map to the Value Stream Roadmaps.
10. Provide guidance on Jira and Jira Align configuration to support Platform and Enablement team structure and transparency.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

1. High Emotional Intelligence.

2. Ability to influence leaders.

3. Political acumen.

4. Excellent communication skills.

5. Can take a systemic view of organizations

6. Strong problem solving and solution design skills.

7. Lean Agile Leadership.

8. Change Management.

9. Experience with outcomes driven innovation.

10. Lean Portfolio Management.

Qualifications Required: