Agile Tooling Specialist

VON Consulting is an HR Consultancy company, providing solutions and services in the following areas: recruitment and executive search, personnel leasing, payroll, administration and training.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
 Experience as Agile Tooling Specialist within large delivery organisations, with demonstrable experience leading teams on agile methodologies / tools;
 Strong stakeholder engagement & communication skills;
 Experience of Agile frameworks;
 Background in software development, product delivery and/or programme/project management;
 Highly organised;
 Ability to understand, support and articulate complex Business change processes, data-sets and governance.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
 Commercial degree or equivalent;
 Knowledge and experience of working in agile frameworks, e.g. SAFe Agilist/SPC, Scrum, Kanban, Agile PM;
 SAFe, PMP, MSP or Prince2;
 Experience of agile tools in the Strategy to Plan domain (e.g. Jira, MS Azure, Confluence);
 Knowledge and experience working in a LACE structure;
 Experience in complex organizations with distributed responsibilities or with an international environment.

 Acting as a technical Product Owner for the Agile portfolio management tools and adjacent tools like analytic tools and others;
 Supports Agile tools configuration in order to suit customer requirements;
 Manage and own the requirements to relevant tools supporting the lean portfolio management function, define requirements within the SAFe framework and manage the backlog of requirements on an ongoing basis via a community of practice of experienced users; define the change management process for any requirements for the tool and act as a Product Owner for tool requirements within the initial roll-out and implementation of common tools across Digital & IT;
 Ensure that the tools are being rolled out consistently and in compliance with SAFe standards and common methods within Digital & IT and with other stakeholders and users of these tools (e.g. Demand & Capacity management tools, agile portfolio Management Tools, Jira, Confluence)
 Develop and conduct training and coaching on how to use/configure agile collaboration tools to ensure optimum and consists the use of tools across Digital & IT, optimizing agility and flow on the basis of the standards and methods aligned upon within the Enterprise LACE;

 Align with the Agile Coaches to ensure that the audience understands how to setup, configure and use relevant tooling effectively to support Agile Delivery and continuously drive common tool adoption:

o Typical Tools include Azure. DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, etc.
 Responsible to measure the agile maturity across markets with regard to the implementation of collaboration tools;
 Coordination and planning of Jira align training;
 Coordinate training times, confirmation of costs, bookings/forecasts and develop a training plan/roadmap.

The Agile Tooling Specialist is the technical product owner for the agile portfolio management tool and adjacent tools like analytic tools and others. You will be responsible for defining the requirements for how to use/configure the tool and will provide the training and guidelines to users to ensure optimum and consistent use across Digital & IT. In this role, you will support Product Owners and Scrum masters to ensure the tooling serves their needs, that it has the required functionality and that the appropriate support is provided to ensure a high level of usability and usage. You will implement and deliver plans to support users with functionality and training and manage requirements on the tooling landscape in the LPM&T domain via a community of interest. community of interest.