AGILE COACH

Job description

Allianz Direct continues to grow, and this time we are looking for a talented Agile Coach to join our team.
We are looking for a person with knowledge and experience within Agile Environments using Scrum/Kanban. Proactive, enthusiastic, and output driven. Willingness to embrace and drive change, solid problem-solving skills, supported by a logical, methodical, and thorough approach to implementation.
A person with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to establish and maintain collaborative work relationships at all levels.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

•    Working with leadership team and squads in their day-to-day to streamline communication and create positive relationships built on cooperation.
•    Boosting self-organized and autonomous Tribes and Squads and fomenting continuous improvement.
•    Extending the Agile knowledge inside the organization (training, workshops, learning).
•    Designing and implementing the Allianz Direct Agile Way of Working.
•    Providing objective feedback.
•    Identifying and resolving impediments that impact team activities.
•    Providing support in synchronization and alignment between different units within the Organization.
•    Helping the Organization with strategic planning and the implementation of key initiatives to create an Agile Portfolio (supporting Quarterly Business Review process).
•    Building a strong relationship between all the Allianz Direct colleagues from the different countries and creating a common understanding.
•    Helping the organization to adopt the AZDIR common Way of Working that reflects Agile mindset.
•    Improving the team’s delivery of value by sharing Agile best practices as a Servant Leader.
•    Impulse continuous improvement culture in the Organization.
•    Creating a safe environment that enables high performing, motivated Tribes and teams.
•    Being a promoter inside Organization to adopt Lean-Agile mindset.
•    Working with teams and Organization so decisions are data driven.
•    Enable and give support, to more than four Squads at the same time, to help them in implementing Agile principles and improving Agile practices.
•    Ensure teams are involved in rough effort estimation, creating awareness regarding the benefits of being predictable.
•    Helping teams to self-manage impediments and resolve conflicts.
•    Giving constructive feedback to the teams.
•    Create awareness in the team to maintain updated the information in the management tool (Jira).
•    Support and train Agile roles if needed in their role’s responsibilities.
•    Assure the proper metrics to show Tribe and Teams progress.
•    Coordinate with other Agile Coaches inside the Tribe.
•    Participate on Agile Community being in contact with rest of the Agile Coaches Chapter to share best practices.

 

KEY REQUIREMENTS/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

•    Broad knowledge of Lean, agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), scalation (LESS, Nexus, …)
•    Experience working both at organization level with leadership and team level.
•    Experience in working in Agile environments.
•    Strong analytical skills to make strategic decisions quickly.
•    An entrepreneurial and very customer-focused mindset.
•    Proactive attitude, openness, and courage in an action.
•    The ability to build strong relationships.
•    Excellent analytical skills and the ability to draw logical conclusions.
•    Effective communication skills.
•    Openness to change and commitment.
•    Facilitation skills with ability to work across diverse groups of people.
•    Ability to coach and mentor both people as individuals and teams.
•    Ability to create and give training courses for individuals and teams.
•    Excellent oral and written Italian and English skills.

 

Nice to have:
•    Agile Certifications: PMI-ACP, Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance, Kanban University, Black Belt Six Sigma…
•    Experience working at larger multinational organizations (insurance experience is a plus).
•    Experience in distributed-teams environment.
•    Experience in multicultural environment.
•    Languages: German, Dutch, Spanish, French.

Why join us?

You will also work in one of the most advanced Insurance companies when it comes to usage of cloud-native technology, Agile mindset and DevOps/SRE principles.
Reporting to the Agile Coaches Global Chapter Lead, you will join an inclusive team with a strong collaborative mindset.

 

 

50329 | Operations | Professional | Allianz Direct | Full-Time | Permanent

 

 

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

Both genders may apply in accordance with the L. 903/77 (s.m.i).