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IT Capability Coach

Company Name: The Emirates Group
Employment Type:Full Time
Location: Dubai
Experience: 5+ years
Degree: Bachelor
Gender:Any
Age:Any  
Nationality: Any
Salary:Unspecified
No. Of Vacancies:1
Job Description:
Job Purpose
Coaching and training on lean agile mindset, team autonomy and servant leadership across IT. Carry out activities that enable alignment between portfolio, programme and team level work through fit for purpose processes and frameworks. Coach team members on contemporary ways of working based on lean principles.

Job Outline:
Coaching and training on scaled agile practices in assigned areas. Implement Agile Release Trains (team of teams) implementation in line with the priorities established by Manager IT Capabilities.
Collaborate with all IT functions to train and launch cross functional Agile Release Trains (team of teams) that enable business value with high levels of autonomy and empowerment.
Coach people across IT on lean agile mindset, team autonomy and servant leadership. Collaborate with Tech Academy to provide training.
Identify the best practices that will enable positive outcomes for the company. Collaborate with people across IT to implement new and enhanced ways of working.
Identify the key metrics around time to market, quality, productivity and people engagement. Implement the right metrics and portfolio, programme and team level in collaboration with the functions and teams.
Support communities of practice that enable people with common interest in a technical or business domain to collaborate regularly, improve skills and actively advance knowledge of the domain.
Help all IT functions to use agile toolset with a pragmatic approach that enables right agile practices for software development as well as other work in IT.
Guide teams to select the appropriate delivery practices that maximises the outcomes expected from the team. These include practices like Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall or a hybrid approach depending on the nature of work to be done and outcomes to be achieved.

Qualifications & Experience
Qualifications
Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a subject related to Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Product Management, Applied Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.
Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant (SPC)

Experience
5+ years of working in Information Technology in disciplines like – Programme and Delivery Management – Technical Product Management – Architecture and Design – Software Development

Knowledge/skills
Must have good understanding of the following IT disciplines
IT Portfolio Management
Programme and Delivery Management
Technical Product Management
Architecture and Design
Software Development
DevOps and Automation
End to End Quality Assurance
Leadership Role: No