As an enterprise agile coach, you are responsible for Global Blue’s agile principles and frame-work. In this role, you will work closely with the leadership team, development teams, and stakeholders to evaluate, develop, harmonize and continuously improve the agile methodologies used. You and your team of Scrum Masters will be responsible for coaching, training, and mentoring agile teams, and you will be an advocate for agile practices in the product and technology organization while driving improved delivery of the SCRUM teams.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead a team of scrum masters who work inside their assigned SCRUM teams to drive delivery and continuous improvements
- Provide agile coaching, training, and mentoring to SCRUM Masters, development teams, managers, and executives on agile principles, practices, and frameworks
- Work with teams to establish and track meaningful metrics and drive their harmonized implementation across teams
- Monitor the maturity and drive evolving agile methodologies and principles of the individual SCRUM teams.
- Suggest overall process evolutions in Global Blue’s context to allow scaling SCRUM teams for cross-team initiatives
- Act as a change agent to promote agile values, principles, and practices across the technology and product organization
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning, where teams feel safe to experiment, fail, and learn from their mistakes
- Coach teams toward high performance by implementing and strengthening Agile Best Practices, ensuring alignment and balance between the Product Owner and the Delivery Team
- Help teams adopt agile practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing
- Work with vendors and third-party service providers to ensure their working models integrate smoothly with Global Blue’s agile practices
- Develop and deliver training programs, workshops, and other educational materials to promote agile practices across the organization
- Drive continuous improvement of Global Blue’s agile maturity
- Foster communities of practice and adherence to quality practices
YOUR QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE
- Relevant IT educational background - university degree or similar experience
- 5+ years of experience as agile coach or scrum master in complex and fast-paced environments
- In-depth knowledge of agile principles and various agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and SaFe
- Proven track record of successfully mentoring and coaching agile teams and organizations in agile methodologies
- Experience with agile metrics, tools, and techniques for tracking and measuring team performance
- Solid understanding in process design
- Strong leadership, Team player and change management skills
- Proactive, enthusiastic and goal-orientated.
- Excellent communication (oral and written in English), presentation, facilitation and interpersonal skills
- Relevant Agile certifications, e.g., in Scrum, SAFe are a plus
YOU WILL GET IN RETURN
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and development
- Working with dynamic and innovative teams
- Flexible working time and distance/remote work (home office)
- International environment, inspiring colleagues with more than 35 nationalities where English is the official working language
- State-of-the-art office environment well connected to the public transportation system
- Other benefits (Referral Bonus, Christmas party, team building, company doctor, lunch vouchers, discounts etc.)
Global Blue guarantees a competitive and performance-related salary depending on your professional and personal qualifications: Min. 70.000 EUR however, the total compensation is a subject of individual agreement.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: From 70,000.00€ per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Vienna, W: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
