Senior Agile Master

Purpose of the Position

The Senior Agile Master is responsible for supporting the teams in IT Delivery at their request (pull principle) with suitable lean and agile methods in order to ensure effective collaboration and improve the delivery process. It is his task to define and establish the agile working methods together with the other Senior Agile Masters. He supports the teams and the IT product owners in the adaptive implementation of agile working methods and accompanies the teams with regard to their collaboration, dealing with conflicts and other impediments.

Main Responsibilities and Activities

Accompanying/supporting the IT product teams:

Ensuring continuous improvement of the delivery process

Communicating agile values, principles and procedures/methods so that the teams work efficiently, self-organized, autonomously and transparently

Supporting the teams and IT product owners in introducing, establishing and optimizing agile frameworks and practices (e.g. Scrum)

Working with the teams to remove obstacles and get their work done

Arbitration of conflicts at delivery team level

Coaching IT product owners, e.g. in agile product management and product value optimization

Moderation/orchestration of agile events/ceremonies (depending on the maturity of the team)

Cross-team tasks:

Analyzing patterns across several teams, deriving and implementing appropriate measures

Development and maintenance of agile and lean working methods and tools

Continuous exchange with the other Senior Agile Masters in order to coordinate, further develop and orchestrate the introduction of methods

General:

Active collaboration with the IT Product Owners to continuously improve agile collaboration

Continuous learning in the area of agility, expansion of the corresponding detailed knowledge, analysis of new ways of working with regard to Vorwerk IT suitability

Active collaboration in the Chapter of Agile Management

Expertise and Skills

Specialist knowledge, technical skills and experience:

•         Excellent skills in managing complexity

•         Advanced Lean & Agile Practices knowledge

•         Proven experience Knowledge of agile organizations

•         Advanced facilitation & moderation skills

Behavioral skills:

•         Leading/influencing without formal authority

•         Advanced teamwork and collaboration

•         Advanced conflict resolution skills

•         Advanced communication skills

Typical profile / training qualification:

•         Knowledge, skills and competencies are typically acquired through (specialist) higher education

•         More than 3 years of professional experience in comparable roles