Agile Team Coach

Welcome to the Agile team coach job offer! The generic task description will wait. Let’s focus on the essential instead: what is there to gain to work with us? At Pyxis, you will be able to experiment new things, be yourself, focus on providing clients with impeccable services, and you will be treated respectfully.Furthermore, you will be supported by our team of expert coaches. In fact, Pyxis has been coaching development teams for over 10 years now.

We want to meet with you if you wish to coach Agile teams, but above all, if you feel like seeing sparkles in the eyes of your team members because they like to be Agile.

The job description

Pyxis is seeking Agile team coaches who will carry out projects for clients. They will be working with organizations who want to implement or improve Agile system or software development practices.

Agile team coaches work closely with Scrum Masters to develop and perform activities allowing skills development for team members and improvement of development processes. The role of the team coach is to share his experience and observations with all team members, to make sure that the best practices are being used, and to see to the overall objective cohesion of projects involving many teams.

The objective of the team coach is to help Scrum Masters develop their skills in order to rapidly become self-sufficient and benefit from Agile approaches. More specifically, the team coach supports the start-up of projects, gives advice to improve the application of Scrum throughout projects, and spreads the best practices. This coach promotes and facilitates in a cohesive manner the adoption of Agility within teams.

At Pyxis, team coaches bring their knowledge of Agility. They work with people who have the same challenges and who gain experience in order to better coach teams.

The tasks and responsibilities

• Carry out Agile coaching or transition projects at the clients' site
• Help teams implement Agile development approaches
• Coach Scrum Masters to help them familiarize with their role
• Remain at the leading-edge of Agile development practices and contribute to their spreading

The profile

Team coaches have experience in project or team management, whether traditional or Agile. They know the mechanisms of software or system development processes as well as of the main development methods.

In order to be able to meet their challenges, team coaches must be self-sufficient, versatile, passionate and dynamic. They must show diplomatic skills. Also, they must have facilitation skills as well as the ability to resolve conflicts.