Agile Facilitator

The Agile Facilitator will lead Agile ceremonies, guiding and supporting teams in establishing and managing effective practices related to delivering software releases in the Scaled Agile Release Train. The Agile Facilitator will be responsible for keeping the team backlog up to date which will enable visualization of work in progress. The Agile Facilitator will also be responsible to foster an environment of continuous improvement on the team(s).


Team leader:

• Facilitates team ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity
• Monitors and tracks team planning, completion and implementation metrics

Promoter of backlog health:

• Works with Product Managers, Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement; responsible for ensuring backlog refinement is ongoing for both current and future Program Increments within the Scaled Agile Framework
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability

Team protector:

• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination
• Helps identify and mitigate impediments
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions

Team coach:

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
• Mentors team members in healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality, continuous improvement and predictable delivery
• Teaches new team members Scaled Agile values, principles, methods and frameworks, practices, and process
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflict, and encourages healthy team dynamics
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems
   

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2 years' experience as a Scrum Master / Agile Facilitator. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 14 years' experience in a related field

Working experience in more than one of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Kanban, Scaled Agile, Scrum.

2 or more years' experience using Azure DevOps or Jira.

Experience working with multiple teams is preferred

Working in Pet Health and/or a regulated environment is a plus