Agile Coach

The Agile Coach must be able to meet the key criteria below:

Location: Must be onsite in St. Louis, MO

Years’ Experience: 8+ years

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Clearance: Must be able to obtain a DoD CAC

Work Authorization: Must be a United States Citizen

Key Skills:

• 3 years’ experience as Agile or team lead using, implementing and directing agile or lean philosophy techniques, particularly XP Agile
• At least one relevant certification: Project Management Institute (PMI) Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilist

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the Product Owner and Product Team in execution of the product vision, and ensuring day-to-day execution of Agile operations.
• Guides the team and organization on how to use Agile practices and values, as well as how to self-organize into Agile Frameworks.
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Assists with internal and external communication.
• Supports and educates the Product Owner and drives team sprint/re lease commitments; assists team by removing impediments.
• Ensures Agile practices the team agrees to are followed.
• Controls feature sizing, velocity and capacity estimations.
• Works with Product Owner to create and define story acceptance criteria.
• Provides support and commitment to continuous improvement of product, process, and the team.

Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience as Agile or team lead using, implementing and directing agile or lean philosophy techniques, particularly XP Agile.
• Proven experience with widely practiced agile techniques, including release planning, user stories, backlog management, sizing and estimation, and continuous integration.
• Experience developing user stories using customer inputs
• Experience assessing the Agile maturity of the team and advising the team on how to reach higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace.
• Clear communication skills are required.

About IBR

Imagine Believe Realize, LLC (IBR) is an emerging small business focused on delivering software and systems engineering solutions to government and commercial clients. Our talent acquisition strategy is tailored to career seeking candidates who embrace continuous learning and desire to grow as a professional in the software/systems engineering industry. We strive to enhance our team members ability to thrive in the workplace by creating a proper work/life balance and first-class benefits package that includes:

• Nationwide medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 3 weeks of paid time off and 10 paid federal holidays
• 401k matching
• Life insurance at no cost to our employees
• Short term and long term disability insurance at no cost to our employees
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending accounts
• Training and education assistance opportunities

Imagine Believe Realize, LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.” IBR does not discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Learn more at http://www.teamibr.com

If alternative methods of assistance are needed with the application process, additional contact information has been provided below:

info@teamibr.com
407.459.1830