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HealthPartners is currently hiring for an Agile Coach. This position serves as an accelerator for the adoption of agile ways of working within HealthPartners Care Delivery IT. The coach educates and guides teams in order to mature their agile approaches, measures progress to overcome obstacles, drives continuous improvements, and champions agile methodologies to stakeholders. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent years of experience). 5+ years of experience working in an agile delivery environment. 3+ years of experience working as an agile coach, scrum master, or a comparable role. Agile certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Professional (Scrum Alliance)) Deep expertise in agile methodologies, frameworks, and practices. Experience coaching and mentoring individuals and teams and facilitating training sessions. Demonstrated ability to influence change and resolve conflict at the leadership and team level. Strong critical thinking skills that can be applied to resolve complex business and technical challenges. Experience developing and tracking metrics and using them to make data-driven decisions. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing. Familiarity with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence). Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks. Preferred Qualifications: Experience working within health care organizations. Schedule/Location: M-F; Days May work remotely but will prefer local candidates for occasional onsite needs. Accountabilities: Assess and enhance team agility and maturity by developing coaching plans and conducting maturity assessments. Coach individuals and teams (including scrum masters and product owners) to facilitate adoption and improvement in agile methodologies and principles. Establish and ensure adoption of standards, and relevant practices for agile ways of working. Provide guidance and facilitate sprint and release planning sessions, and other agile events as needed. Challenge existing workflows and processes and remove impediments to agile teams' success. Lead teams through immersive learning experience, new teams and those wanting refinement. Facilitate the organization's transition to a continuous delivery model and adoption of an agile mindset across stakeholders. Partner with IT Learning & Development to develop, deliver, and/or coordinate with external providers to provision training and workshops on agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, XP) and practices (e.g., conducting daily stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog management). Monitor and communicate progress of agile teams' key metrics (e.g., OKRs and KPIs) to stakeholders (e.g., IT and business leaders). Track metrics to surface potential problems and assist teams in resolving them. Champion agile approaches, drive awareness of the agile transformation, and gain stakeholder buy-in to expand adoption and support agile approaches. Keep up to date with corporate policies, practices, and industry trends concerning agile. Participate in the identification, collection, and reporting of agile practice metrics and measurements to track progress. Assist with establishing and facilitating communities of practice and developing a culture of continuous improvement across teams. Maintain an involvement in industry agile communities to continuously bring new methods and ideas to the organization. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.