Principal Agile Coach

_VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value and enhancing quality and efficiency across 28 countries, and operating from 6 locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, and the UK.

Over 26,000 highly skilled individuals are dedicated to being Vodafone Group’s partner of choice for talent, technology, and transformation. We deliver the best services across IT, Care, Business Intelligence Services, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, HR Operations, and many more. Established in 2006, _VOIS has evolved into a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone.

_VOIS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and we welcome and value diverse people and insights. We believe that being authentically human and inclusive powers our employees’ growth and enables them to create positive impact for themselves and society. We do not discriminate based upon age, colour, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, and national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

• Proven experience as Agile Coach with large delivery organisation, with demonstrable experience leading teams in adopting and implementing agile methodologies
• Safe Programme Consultant (SPC) Certificate
• Practical experience in at least one IT domain (development, testing, DevOps, programme management)
• Leader with the ability to develop and communicate the objectives, inspire, coach and motivate the team
• Ability to continue to monitor, learn and implement best practices via the agile community
• Expertise in current & evolving Agile methodologies and tools
• Ability to understand, support and articulate complex Business change processes, data-sets and governance
• Commercial degree or equivalent
• Safe Programme Consultant (SPC) Certificate
• Knowledge and experience of working in agile frameworks, e.g. SAFe Agilist/SPC, Scrum, Kanban, Agile PM
• Experience in agile tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, MS Azure, or similar)
• Knowledge and experience working in a LACE structure
• Experience in complex organizations with distributed responsibilities or with an international environment

• Manage and support the agile transformation and guide the organisation and teams through the agile journey and maturity growth by
o Building and supporting each local market to increase their maturity against the 7 Key Scaled Agile competencies
o Building and updating a comprehensive SAFe curriculum in collaboration with VF University and other LACE functions
o Defining standards and creating playbooks for agile ceremonies, e.g. PI-Planning, daily stand-ups, Portfolio Syncs, etc.
• Provide training and coaching on agile ways of working and adoption of SAFe to all relevant stakeholders and teams and advise on set-up of value streams for delivery
o Train all levels of the organisation on agile principles, practices, roles, artefacts and ceremonies to maintain consistency of adoption and continuously improve performance
o Manage and facilitate knowledge sharing of best practices throughout the organisation and capture it in a useable, easily accessible format for all
• Manage and lead the usage of agile adoption measurements to evaluate and report the performance and adherence of the organisation on a regular basis
o Data-driven assessment of agile maturity across markets
o Data-driven assessment of delivery performance
• Work with and guide delivery functions on an on-going basis

• WFH - Hybrid approach
• Medical and dental services
• Life insurance
• Dedicated employee phone subscription
• Special discounts for gyms and retailers
• Annual Company Bonus
• Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
• You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
• Getting in on the ground floor of and technology changing company
• Flexible Vacation – Take time off when you need it, we trust you!
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