Agile Coach

Job description

Job ID 1026847 Date posted 7/17/2018 Primary Location Fort Collins, Colorado, United States; Palo Alto, California, United States; Westborough, Massachusetts, United States; Houston, Texas, United States Other location Palo Alto,California,United States of America;Westborough,Massachusetts,United States of America;Houston,Texas,United States of America Job Category Engineering Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (United States of America)

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), we live by three core values that drive our business: Partner. Innovate. Act. These values combine to help us create important work all over the world to advance how people live and work.

HPE SimpliVity, as a leading provider of software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure, provides an industry-leading software-defined data management platform, to deliver the industry’s only “built-for-enterprise” hyperconverged offering.

Rapid proliferation of applications and the increasing cost of maintaining legacy infrastructure cause significant IT challenges for many organizations. With HPE SimpliVity, businesses can streamline and enable IT operations at a fraction of the cost of traditional and public cloud solutions by combining IT infrastructure and advanced data services into a single, integrated all-flash solution. HPE SimpliVity is a powerful, simple, and efficient hyperconverged platform that joins best-in-class data services with the world’s best-selling servers and offers the industry’s most complete guarantee.

The true power of hyperconvergence comes from full consolidation of software and hardware devices. HPE SimpliVity combines a customer’s entire infrastructure into a simple, flexible building block so they can reduce the cost and complexity of their IT environment and deliver the technology their organization needs.

Agile Coach Job Description

Expectations of Candidate

The Agile Coach will act as a change agent in the organization using knowledge & experience of Lean & Agile practices to ensure organizational alignment, consistency and scalability. This role is a catalyst for nurturing cultural change and an environment that fosters transparency, value delivery, quality, and innovation. This role is key to enabling people to understand, behave and become in an agile way to ultimately increase customer and business value.

Responsibilities

Experienced trainer with a motivating style:

·  Able to teach Agile, Scrum & Kanban

·  Learn & understand the HPE culture, collaborating with stakeholders to address any potential weaknesses

·  Help instill an Agile mindset throughout the organization

·  Able to effectively facilitate meetings & workshops for a variety of situations while also mentoring others to do the same.

Influential coach to the organization:

·  Understand & Coach the organization in appropriate use of Agility at the team level & at scale.

·  Identify organizational impediments to Agile adoption and work with the leadership team overcome them.

·  Create an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and predictability.

·  Mentor & Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners & Teams on the Agile mindset and appropriate use of Agile practices.

·  Mentor & Coach the leadership team on the impact of Agile transformation on their role.

·  Foster continuous improvement through a transparent organization.

·  Seek to understand a situation and its history and take a nonjudgmental approach when engaging.

Trusted advisor for a maturing Agile organization:

·  Collaborate with and influence all levels of the organization to empower and enable teams to execute. 

·  Be the catalyst for change and recruit likeminded team members to assist the transformation.

·  Influence a culture that learns & adapts quickly to lead the market.

Education

Has attained agile certifications, such as:

·  Scrum Master (CSM)

·  Product Owner (CPO)

·  Some advanced qualification (CSP, CAL, PSM II or PSM III for example)

·  Certification in at least one Scaled framework (SAFe, Less, Scrum @ Scale, DAD)

Experience

·  Bachelors degree

·  Minimum 2 years as a Scrum Master or Product Owner

·  Coached a minimum of 2 companies through a transition to Agile

Required Skills

·  Excellent communication & facilitating skills, including:

·  Facilitating Agile teams

·  Facilitating meetings, workshops, discussion to help Agile adoption

·  Create training material specifically for the situation

·  Influence without authority & lead by example

·  Is able to provide objective guidance, without personal or political considerations through catalyst conversations

·  Has experience in implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments

·  Knowledge & experience of scaling frameworks.

Desired Skills

·  Experience with a number of different collaboration tools

·  Experience Agile Life-cycle Management (ALM) tools

·  Experience with geographically distributed teams

Personal Attributes

·  Self-motivated

·  Passionate

·  Empathetic

·  Comfortable with uncertainty

·  Catalytic leadership style

·  Highly organized

·  Strong team player

·  Entrepreneurial spirit

The Agile Coach should be self-motivated, passionate and empathetic. They can keep their cool in a storm and will uphold the value of a conversation over an email. They are comfortable with uncertainty and can aid the organization to Agility through catalytic leadership.

HPE is an EOE / Female / Minority / Individual with Disabilities / Protected Veteran Status

What do we offer?

Extensive social benefits, flexible working hours, a competitive salary and shared values, make Hewlett Packard Enterprise one of the world´s most attractive employers. At HPE our goal is to provide equal opportunities, work-life balance, and constantly evolving career opportunities.

In order to satisfy our contractual obligations with clients, the successful candidate will be required to pass a basic, standard Criminal Records check.  You will also be required to sign off on HPE's Confidentiality, Non-Solicitation and Conflict of Interest Agreement.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome the many dimensions of diversity.

Accommodation of special needs for qualified candidates may be considered within the framework of the HPE Accommodation Policy