Is your coaching preference to work with individuals and teams on improving their technical practices? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for an Agile XP Coach.
Ideal candidates are experienced Agile developers with the experience to introduce pair programming, test driven development, continuous integration and other technical practices by working side-by-side with developers.
Responsibilities
This position offers opportunities to travel, work with a variety of clients, experience full-time Agile projects, and to learn from leaders in the Agile community. Engagements are anything but typical — consulting assignments will vary from fulfilling the role of ScrumMaster for a novice team, advising a busy Product Owner, developing software with a team, delivering training courses, documenting consulting deliverables, mentoring a team on Agile practices that will take them to the next level, and other similar activities. Often you’ll work with a team for a number of days, while other times you’ll immerse yourself at a customer for a longer duration.
Candidates must be excellent listeners, possess outstanding facilitation and conflict-resolutions skills, and the ability to work in collaborative environments. The candidate will be selected based on their ability to function as a consultant, developer, trainer, and coach, although those in this role may frequently be involved in typical project delivery roles.
Qualifications
Technical skills
- 10 years or more experience in technology/software organizations
- Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle and of several software development methodologies. Experience with Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development and other Agile methodologies is a plus
- Senior-level skills in systems architecture, design, development, and programming in object-oriented and relational databases and client server platforms
- Participate in pair programming with other developers
- Experienced at mentoring other developers
- Experience in leading technical teams; skills as coach and consultant to development organizations
- Experienced software developer or software tester, especially in an Agile environment
Other qualifications
- Technical or Business degree
- Certified ScrumMaster; Experience as a working ScrumMaster
- Experience with processes and tools supporting Agile methodologies
- Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives
- A willingness to travel
Additional Skills Desired
- Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills
- Experience conducting stand-up training
- Experience developing training materials
- Experience leading organizational change management
- Experience developing and growing business with new and existing accounts in a deliberate and strategic manner
- Experience designing and deploying methodologies in many types of organizations
Personal Characteristics
- A predisposition to patience and tolerance.
- Must be comfortable and articulate in challenging change management scenarios, knowing when to insert self and when to fade back.
- Must be extraordinarily articulate, persuasive, and comfortable interacting with all levels of customers, from line developer to C/VP level.
- Effective and collaborative team member.
As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?
When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company — “we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.
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