Agile Coach Krakow, Poland
Agile Coach Description
Job #: 89457
EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
You will be a part of a team of coaches supporting newly created streams and crews to embed the unified model of Agile within the client’s organization. As part of that you’ll be working within the Investment Bank division closely collaborating with Agile Coaches from other divisions in the bank.
Currently the team consists of 8 Agile Coaches, constantly increasing backlog of work.
DESCRIPTION
You will be a part of a team of coaches supporting newly created streams and crews to embed the unified model of Agile within the client’s organization. As part of that you’ll be working within the Investment Bank division closely collaborating with Agile Coaches from other divisions in the bank.
Currently the team consists of 8 Agile Coaches, constantly increasing backlog of work.
Responsibilities
- Work with the key roles across our streams and crews to increase team performance and overall effectiveness (from individual engineers to Executive Director levels inclusive)
- Collaboration with individuals in the department and multi-departments wide to adopt an agile mindset, further agile ways of working and promote early delivery of business value
- Supporting teams to identify and address any organizational, product-related or technical impediments and appropriately facilitate escalation and removal
- Facilitate learning and development through individual team coaching, trainings and workshops on Agile principles and values within the department
- Coach our Scrum Masters/Product Owners about the backlog management, tasks prioritization, and importance of balance between business features and technical debt
- Enable collaboration across-teams and cross-departments and in helping identify and improve organizational-level challenges
Requirements
- Willing to work 3 days per week in the client office in Krakow, no option for full remote
- Experience as Agile Coach responsible for 2-3 organizations (crews) with different stakeholders
- Proven Agile Coach experience, managing/overlooking 8 - 16 scrum teams
- Ability to communicate effectively within team, across teams and in larger community of practice, facilitate difficult discussions and agile ceremonies
- Being able to ensure that Agile principles are adhered to while being pragmatic about practices
- Strong focus on continuous improvement to ensure the growth once’s own craft, learning new tools and sharing techniques across community
- Experience in training teams in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean with special interest in role based trainings like Scrum Master, Product Owner, Kanban Flow manager etc
- Past/current experience in either banking, Risk area or strong technical background (Quants, Functional Analysis or IT background)
We offer
- Team & working conditions:
- Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
- Engineering community of industry’s professionals
- Flexible schedule and opportunity to work remotely
- Relocation within our offices
- Corporate and social events
- Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
- Stable income:
- Employment Contract or B2B
- Regular assessments and salary reviews
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Referral bonuses
- Career development:
- Innovative solutions delivery and engineering excellence
- Outstanding career roadmap
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certification (GCP, Azure, AWS)
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Get Abstract, O’Reilly, Cloud Guru
- Language classes on English and Polish for foreigners
- Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted
