Senior Agile Coach

What You'll Do

Job Summary

Avalara's Agile PMO team is looking for an experienced Sr. Agile Coach to join our Engineering Teams.

Reporting to a Senior Director of Technical Program Manager, as an Agile Coach, you will be supporting the Technology group to ensure program teams follow the Agile Process and bring organizational structure, Agile disciplines, and day-to-day operational management to the teams. You will also be partnered with multiple Agile teams on ensuring a smooth delivery of their release efforts. You will be responsible for evangelizing 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.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Work with OCTO (Office of CTO) leaders in Prod Security, Architecture and Reliability Engineering to improve 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, guide 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 Teams
• Partner with Engineering and Product Leaders to remove roadblocks and agree on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results, and deliverables.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

Experiences

• 8+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with highly technical projects
• 5+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management
• 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework
• Experience in Agile transformation
• Technical Understanding of SaaS Product development
• Excellent relationship management skills.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• SAFe Certification
  
  

Must Have

• Understand spirit of Agile, Portfolio Management and DevOps practices
• Understand finer nuances of Scrum & Kanban
• Understand large scale project management
• Understand release planning, coordination, and management
• Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment
• Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and advanced filters
  
  

Preferred

• Actively drove large scale Agile framework adoption in medium-large program
  
  

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.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

What You Need To Know 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, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down 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.

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.