Agile Coach
Barcelona, SPAIN
Job description
The Global Agile CoE (Center of Excellence) initiative is recruiting experienced Agile Coaches who will work on scaled Agile transformations of Allianz Technology, the IT Provider of the Allianz Group. Through one globally identical E2E Agile Way of Working at Allianz Technology, we have for ambition to organize for independent product teams, align governance to products, tech enablement and focus on craftsmanship with skills & talent. We ultimately aim to adapt to customer needs by delivering more value and increase customer satisfaction in decreased delivery times. Our Agile Blueprint structure is based on the Spotify model with area’s, tribes, chapters etc.
Do you have a passion for Agile and Scaled Agile combined with extensive experience in organizational transformations? Are you interested in guiding senior and middle management in adopting Agile mindset, behaviour and way of working? Then we look forward meeting you.
You will:
· Be the trusted partner for the Area leads, Tribe leads and Chapter Area leads
· Guide the transformation of a product area end-to-end, from first interaction with area lead to the handover to area transformation team
· Co-create area agile transformation roadmap towards self-sustaining organization (together with area transformation team), including high level estimates on timing, targets and metrics
· Developing the agile mindset and capabilities of the organization (training, coaching, challenge on agile value & principles)
· Challenge the transformation story, structures, and processes of existing product areas, execute baseline assessments and perform gap analysis with the Allianz Agile Blueprint as reference
· Be the sparring partner for other agile roles: product owners, scrum master, chapter leaders
· Facilitate the definition of the transformation story of a new product area, including purpose and desired state
· Facilitate workshops e.g., value stream mapping, area and tribe setup
· Help design and build for scale within product area
· Help facilitate scaled ceremonies e.g., big room planning, big room review, Quarterly Business Reviews
· Support the setup of centre of excellence and community of practices within the product area
· Create an environment where we can keep innovating our products and processes through empowered cross functional teams
Your skills:
· Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field, IT, or related field skills, or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
· 5+ years ‘experience in an agile context e.g. in the role of agile coach, senior scrum master of agile consultant
· Minimum of 2 years’ experience being integral part of a scaled agile organization as agile coach, release training engineer or scrum master
· Experience in working with the Spotify model, Objectives & Key Results (OKR), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) is a big plus
· You have experience in coaching middle and senior management in agile mindset & behaviour
· You have one or more of these certifications psm-2, pspo-2, a-csm, a-cspo,a-csd, management 3.0, PAL-E, SAFe, Spotify model, LeSS, Kanban, DevOps, Lean from well-known institutes
· You are courageous to confront people on all levels in a respectful manner and can make people enthusiastic
· You can connect people and have good stakeholder management and communication skills towards senior management and executives.
· You have experience with the Liberating Structures and facilitating various workshops including value stream mapping, customer journeys, agile guilds, agile community of practices
· You apply the system thinking approach and feel comfortable working in an international environment with various cultures
· Other recommended skills: customer centric, storytelling, consultancy skills, emotional intelligence, conflict handling, analytical skills
· Experience with Atlassian JIRA, Confluence and Miro
· Fluent in English language both spoken and written
· Ability to travel
Your benefits:
· We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
· We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
· From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered
· Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach
About Allianz Technology
Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 12,000 employees located in 51 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.
We oversee the full digitalization spectrum – from one of the industry’s largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.
D&I statement
Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity and cultural background, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.
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45355 | Ingeniería informática y tecnológica | Profesional / Senior | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Jornada completa | Indefinido