Senior Manager Agile Coach

We are currently looking for an Agile Coach to join our IGM Technology – Agile Advisory team as part of IGM Financial. The IGM Agile Advisory team works collaboratively to identify opportunities to grow and mature agile across IGM.

The Agile Coach is responsible for maturing the agile practices, knowledge, and mindset across the Delivery organization with a primary focus on teams that are practicing agile. The Agile Coach will be engaged during all stages of the delivery lifecycle working alongside teams supporting and guiding them towards continuously improving the practice of Agile.

The Agile Coach will observe and assess the teams they are working with, leveraging their own Agile experience and knowledge to coach their teams in specific areas to support the teams’ continued growth.

Core Competencies

Core competencies for the Agile Coach are increasing knowledge of Agile-Lean practices, team and individual coaching, facilitation, mentoring, teaching and either one of Technical, Transformation or Business mastery.

Key Accountabilities

1. Coaching
   Observe teams in action to understand current state, work with the team to identify opportunities for growth, and help them create an action plan to achieve the growth.
   Partner with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to provide individual coaching related to their specific Agile roles.
   Lead and coach the organization in its Agile journey with the goal of developing high performing teams.
2. Teaching & Mentoring
   Mentor teams and individuals by sharing their own knowledge and experience of agile.
   Guide teams using their own experience of what has worked / not worked in similar situations.
   Educate teams on agile practices, frameworks / methods, measurements, and roles (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Story Writing, etc.) through both formal and informal sessions (e.g. training classes, lunch & learns, hands-on sessions, and communities of practice).
3. Value Driven Development
   Help teams maintain a customer centric and value driven approach to Product Development.
   Help Product Owner and team to define and measure Business Value.
   Work with Product Owners to build an ongoing feedback loop with the customer.
4. Change Agent
   Act as a change agent, helping remove organizational barriers to delivery/agility that exist outside of the team, and introducing new approaches that will improve team performance.

Knowledge / Skill Requirements

1. Minimum 2 - 5 years of experience in an Agile Coach role
2. Minimum 2 – 3 years of experience as an Agile team facilitator (e.g. Scrum Master, Flow Master)
3. Scrum and Kanban certifications (e.g. CSM, PSPO, KMP)
4. A growth mindset – believes in ‘Yet or Not Yet’ instead of ‘Success or Failure’
5. Experience working with teams of varying Agile maturity
6. Experience working with remote team members
7. Experience working in an organization with both Agile and non-Agile teams
8. Ability to give and receive feedback
9. Ability to communicate with people at all levels of the organization
10. Knowledge of Financial Services industry, mutual funds and ETFs is an asset