Ampcus Inc Hiring for Agile Coach with Healthcare – Contract – W only (No CC) – Remote at Franklin, TN Full Time

The Agile Coach is responsible for supporting our client’s transformation to the Enterprise Agile Operating Model and championing Agile maturity throughout the organization. S/he uses common enterprise Agile maturity metrics to enable data-driven continuous improvement. A key aspect of this role is developing partnerships with business and technology leaders to make foundational connections to the vision of a common operating model to enable the delivery of our business strategy, focusing on the human aspects of change. The Agile Coach has a proven record of accomplishment in assessing agility, coaching employees at all levels, including senior management, on Agile principles and practices, and providing them with the necessary mindset and knowledge to implement agility within their own work, thus influencing their team, their peers, and the organization as a whole.

Key Responsibilities

Helps drive business and technology teams to adopt the Enterprise Agile Operating Model and track adoption

Facilitates review of metric definitions to ensure teams have clear understanding of intent and definition of Agile metrics

Utilizes enterprise Agile maturity metrics to generate enterprise transparency, and identify opportunities for Agile maturity alignment and driving improvement

Manages delivery of individual and team training for terminology, roles, best practices, new tools, etc.

Partners with business and technology stakeholders to provide understanding on defining and maintaining product roadmaps and program epics, and decomposition to a level at which they can be included in program increment planning

Transitions stakeholders to a common method for technology work intake, evaluation of the value proposition, providing visibility into ideation and funding, work decomposition, planning, and delivery

Ensures teams are prepared for Planning events by communicating common ways to size work, defining how MVPs are defined and prioritized, and aligning teams to a common way to assess capacity and utilize enterprise tools, where applicable, regardless of team structure

Assists in championing the transformation by developing, delivering, and managing the overall communication strategy, value proposition, and change management plan across leadership, technology teams, and business teams

Collaborates with teams to identify differences between current and future states, and outline steps required to enable the vision, identifying and removing barriers that slow or prevent the successful change

Collects wins and communicate broadly to track progress and energize transformation efforts

Partners with enterprise Agile team to drive Agile adoption and continuously improve the measurement of Agile maturity across the enterprise

Partners with Integration and Transformation to identify opportunities for improvement and to optimize team performance.

Required Skills

Experience helping drive sustainable, large-scale Agile transformation or organizational change

Extensive experience working with multi-disciplinary teams, balancing technical knowledge with business acumen, and understanding and adapting to organizational dynamics

Significant demonstrated experience in a Fortune 500 organization in aligning technology planning and delivery processes across the enterprise to achieve consistency, transparency, predictability and agility via process, terminology, and metrics and tooling improvements

Agile mindset that exemplifies Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment, while demonstrating Agile principles, practices and methods to achieve success

Outstanding interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, and the ability to quickly establish trust and maintain strong relationships

Ability to influence behaviors of leaders at all levels and without traditional hierarchy

Experience developing and delivering presentations and training

Process improvement skills, with the ability to assess trends, processes, and barriers to drive actionable business results required

High degree of comfort working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with ability to adapt to changes in a quick, professional manner

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, with team members, or as a Lead

Experience with project management approaches, tools and phases of the software project lifecycle

Experience in Agile tools (Azure DevOps, JIRA/JIRA Align), collaboration tools (Confluence, SharePoint), ticketing systems (ServiceNow)

Exceptional verbal and written communication, active listening, and ability to effectively communicate thoughts, concepts, and practices effectively at all levels, adjusting as needed to a target audience

Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, active listening, root cause identification, and powerful/probing questioning skills

Healthcare Industry Experience Preferred

For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla at (url removed)

Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.

Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.