Safe Agile Trainer

This is a remote position.

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Duties and Responsibilities: *

The Agile and SAFe Trainer is responsible for working with global clients to build training curriculum and training schedules to support Agile Transformation initiatives. They will partner with the client and stakeholders to develop a formalized Agile Training Roadmap, foundation courses, role-based courses, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification courses. This trainer must be able to provide training in English and Portuguese.

Specific duties include but may not be limited to:

- Provide consulting, training, and other services as required to support leadership and employee development, focused to include, but not be limited to, the following areas:

- Agile Transformation, as a Service
Agile Approaches, such as Agile Scrum and Kanban
- Scrum Agile Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Agile Funding Models
- Agile Visual/Written Process Documentation
- Agile Basics: Backlogs, Sprint, Ceremonies, Epics, User Stories, Product and Project RoadMap, etc.
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Principles and Industry Best Practices
- Provide a comprehensive Agile training program which includes Agile principles, Agile Teams, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and reenforcing industry best practices, for all levels of State employees
- Provide virtual instruction and may be asked to provide web-based or other learning options
- Experience designing, implementing, and leading agile coaching engagements for mid to executive level professionals, and emerging leaders
- Experience coaching Portfolio, Program, and Team levels with implementing Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Support portfolio and program management processes and stakeholders to improve Lean-Agile product management workflow
- Experience helping Epic owners with capability and feature decomposition, developing acceptance criteria and testable specifications, and provide analysis of common vs. unique capabilities and features across services and benefit types
- Experience leading release planning activities, including developing capability maps, feature maps, and story maps that support rapid releases of minimum viable products and incremental delivery of enhancements
- Experience leading retrospectives and process improvement efforts to improve overall throughput and decrease lead time from prioritization to delivery/release
- Experience supporting senior decision-makers with plans, reports, metrics, analyses, and recommendations
Deliver workshops and training as required on topics such as Lean, Agile, DevSecOps, Lean UX, Design Thinking, and related topics

**Requirements**:
**Minimum Qualifications/Experience**:

- Five (5) or more years of agile training experience with specialized experience in organizational change management and implementation of agile training in government, non-profit or private industry.
- Training/Coaching experience with both small group (less than 15) and large group (more than 15) class sizes.
- Bilingual in English and Portuguese.
- Five (5) years of Agile Transformation experience.
- 10+ years of IT experience and/or complex systems development
- 7+ years’ experience using Agile principles, practices, and methodologies such as Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe on technical projects
- 5+ years implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- 5+ years delivering Agile and/or SAFe certification training
- 5+ years of progressive accomplishment managing and implementing large, complex information systems.
- 5+ years in an agile delivery leadership, management, or coaching role
- Proven leadership ability in dynamic agile environment working with executive and senior-level stakeholders
- Impeccable professionalism and strong communication skills
- Humble and results-oriented servant leader with team-first mentality who follows through on commitments
- Background in process improvement, business process reengineering
- Comfortable leading and facilitating backlog refinement, release planning, retrospective, demos, and project status meetings
- Experience planning strategic initiatives including developing operating models, plans, associated communications and graphics, and related supporting documentation
- Comfortable consulting with and coaching senior management and executives
**Minimum Education**:

- Bachelor’s Degree - Required
**Required Certifications**:

- SAFe Certifications Required
- SPC Required
- Scrum-certified by Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org preferred
**Other**:

- Must be fluent in English and Portuguese
Minimum Qualifications/Experience: Five (5) or more years of agile training experience with specialized experience in organizational change management and implementation of agile training in government, non-profit or private industry. Training/Coaching experience with both small group (less than 15) and large group (more than 15) class sizes. Bilingual in English and Portuguese. Five (5) years of Agile Transformation experience. 10+ years of IT experience and/or