Sr. Agile Coach

What You'll Do

As an Agile Coach, you will support the Technology group to ensure program teams adhere to the Agile Process and bring organizational structure, Agile disciplines, and daily operational management to the teams. You will also partner with multiple Agile teams on ensuring a smooth delivery of their release efforts. You will evangelize Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams, collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy and working with the Transformation Lead to implement the Agile methodology across the organization.

Responsibilities

Work with OCTO (Office of CTO) leaders in Prod Security, Architecture and Reliability Engineering to streamline the flow of their goals to rest of Engineering Dev teams.

Understand and implement Avalara SDLC in Technical Program Teams

Understand Team goals and partner with TPMs in Lean Portfolio Management Road mapping, within Teams and across multiple dependent teams

As a hands-on Agile Coach for 10+ teams in the Program, drive proper framework adoption and build great product by following the Agile Process

Coach Scrum Leads to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line

Understand the domain of large software

Perform agile project management on large software

Ensure of project metrics to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira

Partner with TPM to facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Business units

Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and align on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results, and deliverables.

Experiences

6+ years of

5+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and experience required and an with highly technical projects

3+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management

1+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework

Excellent relationship management

Work location: Pune

You will be reporting to Senior Director Technical Program Manager

What You'll Need to be Successful

SaaS Product development Teams.

About The Team

SaaS Product development Teams.

How We'll Take Care of You

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.

Flexible hybrid working

We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

About 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.

EEO Statement

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.