IT Agile Coach - Cape Town, South Africa - Network Contracting

Network Contracting

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Main activities:

Actively demonstrate the importance of collaboration by working closely with all stakeholders to resolve resource issues and blockers across delivery teams.
Plan and track progress against strategic road maps whilst challenging and providing direction.
Contribute to the building of a strategically agile culture alongside senior management.
In conjunction with the Service Delivery Managers, ensure the staffing levels, skills and capabilities meet demand.
Communicate with the specialists in their capability to ensure they have the support and understanding they need to work at maximum effectiveness.
Identify capability training and development requirements, ensuring employee knowledge

- and skills are appropriate to their current and future roles.

Lead the ongoing professional development of the capability specialists and the promotion

- of best practices within these teams.

Contribute to the performance management of team members actively managing both strong and poor performance In conjunction with the Service Delivery Manager, understand the pipeline of work.
Strategically plan for future business needs and direct the timely deployment of appropriate
In conjunction with the Service Delivery Managers, identify and organise additional resources based on skill capability and the requirements of the flexible delivery teams.
Establish and formalise governance, disciplines, and controls for a specialist function

Technical Operations and Development

Lead the strategic development of a specialist function and think strategically about how to improve, optimize, and expand it to meet the goals and objectives of the business and IT strategy, in conjunction with the Capability Lead.
Technical Effort Management
Manage capability within budget and schedules.
Organizational Management
Plan and manage capability budgets.
Liaise with other relevant groups, partner organizations, and external vendors as needed in relation to operational matters.
Advise and implement IT disciplines and approaches within a fastpaced tech environment.
Communicate complex technical information to nontechnical people in a comprehensible form.
Identify improvements to operational systems, processes, and policies to support IT and business strategy.

Scope of Influence

Advises Peers, Engineers, Manager, and Senior Manager
Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.
Actively mentors/develop others improving their skills, their knowledge, and their ability to get things done correctly.
Assesses the readiness of scrum masters engineers for promotion. You actively participate in the hiring processes.

Requirements:

Relevant Bachelors degree or Diploma in Information Technology.
Appropriate Scrum Master certification.
Minimum 6 years of experience in agile software development including coaching on agile methodologies.
High level of technology awareness and experience in recruiting and procuring a wide range of technical expertise.
A cooperative and outcomefocused approach to employee and peer interactions with a proven ability to coach and mentor employees through change, harnessing strengths and abilities to affect positive change outcomes.
Exceptional knowledge and understanding of tools and methods for delivering IT Solutions.
To manageability, managing the capabilities needed to deliver in a complex operational environment.