About the Role
We are seeking an experienced SAFe Program Team Support & Coach to join our team. As a SAFe Program Team Support & Coach, you will play a key role in ensuring that our Agile Release Train (ART) operates seamlessly and delivers results in line with our strategic roadmap.
Main Responsibilities
* Co-responsible for ensuring that our ART operates seamlessly and delivers results in line with our strategic roadmap.
* In close alignment with ART Product Management and RTE: Effectively support Agile practices across seven agile teams; facilitating alignment, agile ceremonies, and ensuring robust dependency management.
* Backlog management: Work with POs and Scrum Masters to set up and maintain a work breakdown structure including dependencies, which makes logical and practical sense from the perspective of engineering and delivery of a complex product.
* Program Plan: Projecting backlog to a short/mid/long term timeline and making it traceable and reportable on different aggregation levels.
* Prompt Quality Assurance with all teams for completeness, consistency and up-to-dateness of the plan.
* Further advance ART templates and develop best practice reporting formats for ART delivery (Jira & AgileHive based).
* Ensure the ART complies with the portfolio and project framework of the organization, and be the interface between the ART and other relevant chapters.
* Help optimizing ART practices in other formal compliance areas, such as Jira-integrated requirements and test management.
* Possibility to be considered: Combine this role with a 50% assignment as Scrum Master of a single agile team within the ART.
Requirements
* Min. a Vocational degree
* Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies and principles
* Strong understanding of the SAFe framework and its core principles
* Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification
* Proven experience in a Scrum Master role within a SAFe implementation in an international environment
* Mastery of Jira-based backlog management and planning tools / plugins
* Proven ability to guide and coach multiple Agile teams
* Excellent communication and facilitation skills
* Strong problem-solving abilities
* Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively
* Fluency (spoken and written) in English is mandatory
About Us
We are part of a global ecosystem of HR services and consulting that supports the development of the labour market and helps to change people's lives. We operate with direct presence in many locations across Switzerland and over employees. We are one of the leading staffing companies in the Swiss recruitment market.