Senior Agile Coach

Why join us? 

Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

Title – Senior Agile Coach

JOB DESCRIPTION

At MillerKnoll, we're building an agile, collaborative, globally connected organization fit for continuous evolution. As an Agile Coach, you will assist in creating, developing, and executing MillerKnoll’ s digital strategy across multiple product teams. Agile Coaches support and guide product teams towards embracing a continuous improvement mindset in their agile journey as well as championing empirical decision making throughout the organization. You will be a key factor in enabling growth in digital experiences for contract and consumer clients.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Establish and scale the Agile Coaching practice in Bangalore
• Build a community of practices to foster continuous learning and knowledge sharing
• Influence organizational design, governance, and operating models to support agility
• Facilitate leadership workshops and Agile training sessions
• Acts as the champion of the user’s needs.
  Serve as a servant leader, coach, and facilitator, working closely with the team and stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality products.
• Help the team embrace iterative development, continuous improvement, and rapid experimentation. Facilitates the definition and implementation of team level working agreements to support the day-to-day delivery of working software.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring they are productive, time-boxed, focused on achieving the Sprint Goal, and encourage active participation.
• Identify and proactively remove impediments that hinder the team's progress, escalating issues as needed. Effectively represent the team's needs to management and advocate for resources and support.
• Work closely with the Product Manager to ensure the Product Backlog is well-defined, prioritized, and aligned with the overall product vision and customer needs. Help the team balance new feature development, new architecture initiatives, and the reduction of technical debt.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience

Bachelor's / Master’s Degree in an IT-related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience with an overall experience of no less than 12 years. A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience as an Agile Coach / Scrum Master required with demonstrated experience in continuous delivery models/frameworks strongly preferred.

Required Licenses and Certifications

Scrum Master certification is mandatory

Preferred Licenses and Certifications

SAFe Agile certification

ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)

ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC)

Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical skills with a solid understanding of core agile delivery metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional presentation and facilitation skills.
• Experience with conflict resolution, facilitating discussions and solutioning within diverse groups and high-stakes environments.
• Ability to solve problems and remove impediments that prevent the team from performing at their best.
• Mastery of agile & scrum concepts and principles, with ability to influence others to adhere to best practices.
• High-energy and resilient outlook in challenging scenarios.
• A passion for growth mindset – honing your craft, learning new tools and techniques. Recognize and embrace failures as opportunities to learn and grow.
• Proficiency with agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated experience driving technical improvements in software development processes, such as TDD, CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality initiatives.

Note: This role will work in the shift timing of 2:00pm to 11:00pm IST in a Hybrid mode (no remote working option).

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at  careers_help@millerknoll.com.