Senior Agile Coach - Technology
Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Concordia
Posted on: June 25, 2022
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Job Description:
At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious,
long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and
implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client
experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our
more than 7 million clients live and work.In a typical branch
office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch
office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships
with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and
Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada
branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to
grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.The Agile
Coach role within Edward Jones serves to connect firm level
strategy and prioritization to the execution activities of product
management, teamwork, and responsibility-based management. The
coach mentors, coaches and guides the firm and its teams in the
implementation and relentless improvement of agile processes and
tools to ensure effective outcomes for the firm.The goal of an
Agile Coach is to develop teams and individuals with a Lean-Agile
mindset and to build a team that is self-sustaining and high
performing to reach their full potential. The Agile Coach works
across divisions to not only help define Agile processes, tools,
and metrics for the organization, but also help teams implement
those processes and tools and is aligned with the strategies of the
Product and Agile Center of Excellence.The Agile Coach is a
champion for innovation, relentless improvement and fostering a
continuous learning environment. They continuously seek to gain
alignment in execution and immediately raise any concerns and
challenges to the Product and Agile Center of Excellence. The Agile
Coach will drive relentless improvement and foster a continuous
learning environment.Key Responsibilities: - Provide strategic
consulting and support for teams, business owners and leaders. -
Communication and facilitation for Teams, Product, and Delivery
Managers - Understand firm vision and strategy, and ensure program
goals, business direction, and technical direction all align to
support the vision and strategy - Work closely with other internal
and external coaches to ensure agile alignment of messaging and
methodology used across the firm - Work closely with Agile teams,
Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Delivery Managers
and Product Owners to determine strengths and weaknesses and set
action plans for continuous and relentless improvement - Develop
and deliver Agile training and curriculum solutions to the
organization including co-facilitation and facilitation of
workshops - Identify internal Agile practitioners and foster their
growth through mentoring and coaching; Recommend growth
opportunities for Agile practitioners across the firm. - Work with
leaders across the organization to foster agile principles and to
build a culture of servant leadership - Be an ambassador for the
Agile mindset and a catalyst for change in the organization -
Provide coaching for team improvements by observing Agile team
events, monitoring Agile metrics, and conducting one-on-one
mentorship. - Ensure Agile teams are setup for success by
supporting team charter events for new teams and leading new Agile
team planning and pre-planning - Provide direct feedback to
leadership on team progress and escalation of impediments delaying
team progress - Facilitate and participate in the Agile Community
of Practice(s) and Dojos when required. - Participate in coaches
working groups or Centers of Excellence to develop and build
strategies for transformation (i.e. Scaling Agile, Advancing team
maturity, etc) - Apply and encourage Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
and a pragmatic approach - Participate and provide experiential
feedback to teams and leadership on process, governance, and
standards to support an Agile organization - Partner with
organizations on implementing DevOps principles in conjunction with
Agile principles - Contributing to internal web and email content
to update the Firm on current and upcoming Agile initiatives -
Deliver training sessions to teams starting with Team Charters and
Kick-offs - Deliver training sessions and workshops to support
organizational change and education (i.e. Agile 101) - Work with
both Internal and External Coaches to develop and implement
programs and plans that will assist with continuing the success of
the Agile Transformation - Bachelor's degree or relevant experience
- Masters/Graduate Degree preferred - Experience in planning for
execution in Agile and Agile Transformations - 10+ years of IT
experience with managing and delivering highly complex, enterprise
programs and products preferred - 5+ years of experience in
relationship building/communication with Executive leaders or teams
across the firm - 5+ years of experience in
coaching/training/facilitating Executive leaders or teams through a
large-scale Business and Agile Transformation - 5+ Experience
enabling Exec leaders or teams with the mindset shifts necessary
for a successful Business and Agile Transformation - Scaled Agile
Framework (SPC) preferred - Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) preferred - ICAgile Expert-Agile
Coaching (ICE-AC) preferred - Experience with other Program
Management / Agile / DevOps tools a plus (Clarity, MS Project,
Portfolio for Jira, Confluence)2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to
Work For - By Great Place to Work - and FORTUNE Magazine - Edward
Jones was named No. 20 on the list. From FORTUNE -2021 FORTUNE
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do not endorse products or services of, Edward Jones
Investments.2021 Corporate Equality Index - Edward Jones joins the
ranks of 767 major U.S. businesses that received top marks in the
Foundation's 19th annual scorecard on LGBTQ workplace equality.From
The Human Rights Campaign. All Rights Reserved2021 Training Top 100
list - Edward Jones ranked No. 19, up six spots from last year in
its 21st consecutive year on this prestigious list.J.D. Power, 2021
- Edward Jones has ranked "highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction
among Financial Investment Firms" in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S.
Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study. Edward Jones received the
highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2007,2008,
2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021 Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies
of employee advisors' satisfaction among those who are employed by
an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more
information.Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of
race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability,
sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information
or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.At Edward Jones, we
value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we
recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that
promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being.
Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation
approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes
benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this
role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills,
experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential
new associate:Salary: $106916 - $182047Category: Headquarters
Keywords: EDWARD JONES, Independence , Senior Agile Coach - Technology, IT / Software / Systems , Concordia, Missouri
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