Senior Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Transformation coach to transition teams from waterfall to agile as well as provide SAFe certified trainings for a telecommunications client - 2431

Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 3
Start Date: Mar 27, 2023
Job End Date: Sep 29, 2023
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 127934
Location: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
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Our Telecommunications client is looking for a Senior Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Transformation Coach to transition teams from waterfall to agile as well as provide SAFe certified trainings

Location: Mississauga, Ottawa, Montreal or Saint John (3 days in office,  has to be able to go to one of the listed location offices)
Duration: 6 months to start
Work hours 37.5

Responsibilities: 
  • Run SAFe value stream and ART identification workshops to identify value streams and the solutions needed to deliver on them
  • Provide SAFe certified training sessions both online and in person to both teams they are transforming and advanced training for groups across the organization already transformed
  • Ability to help leaders construct Agile Release Trains (ARTs) team of teams built around solutions and\or Lean Portfolios based on the delivery through value streams
  • Work with both leaders and teams to understand the transformation they are part of and why they are doing it
  • Coach agile teams to adopt or improve agile concepts and use the Plan, Do, Check and Adjust (PDCA) cycle in their delivery of Stories and resolution of Defects.
  • Prepare the team for and lead them through Program Increment (PI) Planning, execution of the PI and Inspect and Adapt and teach them how to conduct the session themselves.
Must Haves:
  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
  • Experience conducting SAFe value stream and ART identification workshops to identify value streams and the solutions needed to deliver on them
  • Experience launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs) using Scaled Agile Framework
  • Enabled to deliver up to date SAFe certified training for Leading SAFe and SAFe for Teams
Nice to Haves:
  • Enabled to do other up to date SAFe certified training such as LPM, RTE, POPM, Architects, Scrum Master, etc.
  • JIRA and Confluence
  • Planview\Agile Place
  • A specialization through advanced work in areas such as Product Management, DevOps, Architecture or Lean Portfolio Management
  • Worked within a Lean Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) to implement SAFe