Ergreife deine Chance als Agile Coach bei Keyfactor Inc in Aachen

Title: Agile Coach

Location: Aachen, Germany

Experience: Mid Level

Job Function: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Industry: Computer & Network Security

About the position

The Agile Coach is a key role in the organisation responsible for leading, coaching and helping management, engineering, and product teams to self-organise, self-manage, continuously learn and improve.

The position is based in Aachen, Germany and we have fantastic flexible working practices. Applicants must be hold a valid Right to Work in Germany.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, consults and solves process related dysfunctions effectively
• Installs, introduces and continuously monitors agile metrics to ensure compliance by Scrum Masters
• Takes responsibility of managing multiple product teams in serving them as scrum master, mentor and coach.
• Works closely with product and engineering organization to efficiently deliver better products consistently.
• Serves as an active Change Agent and effectively implements and drives Change in organization
• Uses facilitation techniques effectively (e.g. Liberating Structures, World Café, Brainstorming, etc)
• Deals with complexity at ease and mentors the team in maneuvering through it
• Ensures accountability, commitment and predictability through the installed agile metrics
• Ensures continuous learning, innovation and sustainable improvement of agility within the organization
• Drives campaigns to familiarize everyone in the organization towards the agile way of working regularly
• Offers coaching to stakeholders and other support teams to improve agility
• Seeks feedback regularly from all relevant stakeholders and ensures action
• Provides expert guidance on appropriate agile frameworks (at least Scrum, Kanban and Lean)
• Understands the challenges of upper management and can mitigate risks at org level
• Monitors, designs and continuously optimizes processes at both team level and inter team level
• Works closely with Agile Coach(es), Scrum Masters, and the management in empowering the agile organization to perform
• Conducts training in agile best practices, leads CoPs and other initiatives at cross team level

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in working with product teams and modern product ecosystems
• Experienced in Scrum and at least one another agile framework such as Kanban
• Demonstrable experience in product organizations. Should have significant experience of working as a Scrum Master and as an Agile Coach
• Skills in facilitation, time management, conflict resolution, strong communication and profound knowledge in Scrum
• Advanced skills in coaching teams, facilitation techniques, stakeholder management, data driven decision making, helping teams to improve performance through coaching and working with scaled teams
• Certification as a Scrum Master or certifications in any of the other Agile frameworks and/or soft skills is a plus
• Experience in cybersecurity products and PKI industry is not a must but is a plus
• Strong spoken and written skills in English and fluency in the native language (German) is a plus
• A successfully completed university degree or comparable education/experience in either Computer Science, Management or relevant subject is desired

Compensation

Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits

We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas. A few initiatives that make our culture special include:

• Comprehensive benefit coverage
• Dedicated employee focused ambassadors via Key Contributor & Culture Committee
• DIVERSE Commitment
• Global Volunteer Day
• Flexible time off
• Regular Cross Functional meetings
• Regular Leadership Development meetings
• Regular All Hands meetings – followed by group gatherings
• Second Friday's (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month)
• The Keyfactor Alliance Program
• Weekly Feedback Snapshot

Our Core Values

Our core values are extremely important to how we run our business and what we look for in every team member:

Trust is paramount.

We deliver security software and solutions where trust and openness are of the highest importance for our customers. We are honest and a trusted partner in