Agile Coach, IT

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide coaching notes and feedback to the scrum teams and leaders of the teams. Ensure leaders and stakeholders are aware of the change via the change management strategy and process.
• Manage the training for new scrum teams while helping to develop skills during the sustainment period.
• Lead Scrum Transformation Waves (up to three teams at a time) from readiness to sustaining phases of the transformation. Mainly coach the teams on agile ways of thinking and scrum methodology. Ensure teams get value from the cadences and are adopting ways of working.
• Continuously iterate on training material and ways to help teams be successful.
• Serve as agile subject matter expert, including guiding and mentoring project managers, scrum masters, product owners, and development teams.
• Serve as a backup coach when needed in a different region.
• Other incidental duties.

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT or related field.
• 8 years of hands-on experience managing projects of increasing complexity.

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Demonstrated experience in leading organizations through an agile transformation.
• 8 years of hands-on experience coaching and training scrum teams.
• Proven expertise in the usage of MS Office Suite and related project management systems.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and interpersonal relationship skills, including negotiating and relationship management skills with the ability to drive achievement of objectives.
• Extensive understanding and knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts relevant to agile, change management, and software development.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent understanding and work experience with project budgets and financial management.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence change.
• Experience in facilitating change, including collaboration with management and executive stakeholders.
• Experience within a regulated environment.
• Strict attention to detail.
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels.
• Ability to work and excel within a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment.

About Us

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Asia and currently employs over 15,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.