Job Description

You are a driven and motivated problem solver ready to pursue meaningful work. You strive to make an impact every day & not only at work, but in your personal life and community too. If that sounds like you, then you've landed in the right place.

The Hartford is seeking a leader with strong Portfolio Level Agile Coaching expertise and experience in a large corporate setting, to enable our teams and leaders through their journey of adopting lean-agile principles and practices. This an excellent opportunity for a dynamic leader who has strong and relevant Agile experience and is passionate about helping teams and leaders deliver better business outcomes. This role could be based remotely or in Hartford, CT.

Responsibilities:

* Provide Agile leadership, coaching and education to leaders, teams, and individuals throughout the enterprise (both business and IT) in the power of adopting Lean-Agile practices, principles, and mindset

* Leverage Agile practices to model how work flows through the system, help manage enterprise level impediments to enable better flow of value; make these impediments transparent, and facilitate conversations with the right people to remove barriers

* Coach and partner with Executives, Product Management, Product Owners, IT leads, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

* Define and measure meaningful Agile metrics to provide insights in these three dimensions (1) Team Health and Maturity, (2) Delivery and Performance, and (3) Business Outcomes

* Demonstrate thought leadership leading training classes, workshops, learning forums, communities of practice, blogging, and sharing success stories.



Requirements:

* Minimum of five years Agile Coaching experience; minimum of two years continuous experience as an Agile Coach of senior leadership in a large corporate setting; experience with Scaled Agile required

* A proven track record of portfolio level Agile transformation required execution experience is critical. Candidates with consulting experience will only be considered if they also have experience working in a corporate setting for at least two years continuously

* At least two years foundational experience as an IT Delivery Lead, Release Train Engineer or Agile Product Manager is also required

* Excellent communication and influencing skills; experience communicating at all levels of an organization, including effective communication with executive leadership

* Able to operate independently; manage change and modify approach in an evolving situation

* Insurance industry experience preferred and/or the ability and desire to learn the industry quickly; intellectually curious about the insurance industry

* Hands on Rally Agile Tool experience building Kanban boards and dashboards required

* Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience

* Able and willing to travel up to ~10% of the time

Equal Opportunity Employer/Females/Minorities/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age

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