O que você fará
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Avalara's Agile Enablement Team is looking for an experienced SAFe implementation and Program Delivery Agile Coach to join our Engineering Teams. As an Agile Coach, you will support the Technology group to ensure program teams follow the SAFe Process and bring organizational structure, and Agile disciplines in daily operational management to the teams. You will promote SAFe and Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams, collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the AET Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization. You will be reporting to Sr. Director at Avalara.
This position is fully remote; however, we only accept candidates residing in Brazil.
Quais serão as suas responsabilidades
- Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Delivery Teams (ARTs);
- Work with OCTO (Office of CTO) leaders in Prod Security, Architecture and Reliability Engineering to improve the flow of their goals to rest of Engineering Dev teams;
- Understand our goals and partner with RTEs in Lean Portfolio Management Roadmapping, within Teams and across multiple dependent teams;
- As a hands-on Agile Coach for 15+ teams and multiple ARTs, guide proper SDLC adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process;
- Coach Teams to help build both next-generation products and maintain the current product line;
- Understand the domain of large software;
- Be able to perform agile project management on large software;
- Ensure indicators and insights to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira;
- Be able to partner with RTE to facilitate Dependency Management across multiple teams;
- Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and align on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results, and deliverables;
- Oversee teams' Agile, health metrics and project needs;
- Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts;
- Facilitate delivery of release train milestones by implementing tools.
O que precisa possuir para ser bem sucedido
Experiences
- 10+ years of total experience in software development;
- 8+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with technical projects;
- 5+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management;
- 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework;
- Experience in Agile transformation;
- Technical Understanding of SaaS Product development;
- Excellent relationship management.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering;
- SAFe Certification
Must Have
- Advanced/Fluent English;
- Understand spirit of Agile, Portfolio Management and DevOps practices;
- Understand finer nuances of Scrum & Kanban;
- Understand large-scale project management;
- Understand release planning, coordination, and management;
- Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment;
- Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and advanced filters.
Como cuidaremos de você
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America
O que você precisa saber sobre Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer
Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
