Senior Agile Coach

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Senior Agile Coach – Product PMO (Prof 4)

Job Location: Forcepoint IIC located in Mumbai, India

Job Description  

An Agile Coach is a supporting role within Forcepoint’s Product development organization. Your responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, teaching, group facilitation and process improvement as you assist leaders, individual contributors and teams in the delivery of customer value. You ensure a high level of communication and transparency across teams, leaders and business stakeholders. You proactively identify and escalate impediments, manage risk, and enable continuous improvement. You are considered an expert in scaling Lean and Agile practices, based upon Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). You understand the opportunities and challenges associated with developing complex software at a large scale, across multiple teams and multiple geographies. You foster a Lean-Agile mindset and ability to transform by coaching leaders, teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners. You partner with your peer Agile Coaches, Release Train Engineers, and cross functional leaders to continuously inspect and adapt our product development lifecycle to achieve optimal flow and predictability.

Job Responsibilities

• Act as local expert on Scaled Agile and Lean-Agile principles.
• Coach leaders, managers, teams and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindset.
• Foster Agile Communities and promote the use of modern Agile engineering best practice.
• Able to coach multiple individuals and teams across geographies.
• Assist teams optimize the flow of customer value using various tools including Kanban boards and similar information radiators
• Assist Release Train Engineers in their responsibilities of facilitating and improving Agile Release train events and incremental planning.
• Identify and facilitate organizational level risks and dependencies. Coordinate, mitigate and reduce business impact.
• Conduct Agile maturity assessments based upon subjective and objective data. Actively consult teams and stakeholders on improvement opportunities.
• Review capacity plans and business priorities to build focus on critical bottlenecks and impediments.
• Work with Product Management, Engineering, Business Owners and teams to build alignment on strategy and execution.
• Enable organizational focus and alignment on high value, high quality outcomes.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field of study

Experience (Required):

• At least 6 years of Agile experience serving in an Agile role including Scrum Master, Product Owner, Coach or similar role.
• Experience with various Agile frameworks (XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban).
• Experience in Agile Frameworks, including Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Knowledgeable in Software Security industry and customer solutions.

Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong collaboration, listening and communication skills.
• Ability to negotiate and provide solutions to challenging product development issues.
• Be emphatic, supportive, and find compromise to achieve the best outcomes.
• Leverage experiences and interpret data to determine areas of potential business risk and impact.
• Experience with Atlassian tools including Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with Microsoft productivity tools, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
• Experience with collaboration tools including Teams and Slack.

Qualifications (Preferred):

• Scrum Alliance CSM or CSP, Scrum.org PSM, PMI Agile Certified Professional (ACP)
• Scaled Agile Framework Scrum Master (SASM), Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)), Release Train Engineer (RTE), or Program Consultant (SPC)
• ICAgile Agile Coach

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

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