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Job summary

The Red Hat Products and Technologies (PnT) team is looking for an experienced Senior Agile Practitioner to join our OpenShift team. In this role, you will work closely with the best engineers in the open source community to create innovative technology for the next generation. You will focus on continuous improvement and operations for the OpenShift team. As a Senior Agile Practitioner, you will also serve as a coach and champion of agile principles in the organization to facilitate the transition to agile development. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.

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Primary job responsibilities

• Establish collaborative partnerships with team members and the organization to help them in their journey of adopting agile methodology

• Serve as an agile practitioner for distributed teams as needed, with a focus on coaching the team on agile values and practices and encouraging them to continuously improve

• Ensure new teams are supported through their formation

• Establish and support a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised

• Support and educate the product owner or product manager, especially with respect to maintaining the product backlog

• Facilitate getting work done without resorting to coercion, assigning, or dictating of work

• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Develop metrics to measure and help improve team effectiveness, including dashboard reporting

• Contribute to product roadmap planning, project scheduling, and release management

• Introduce new ideas and processes to improve performance and productivity

• Provide training for the team and program in an environment where agile concepts are new

• Coach managers and leaders in agile and lean practices

• Facilitate cross-team coordination through reaching out to the larger organization for impediment removal

Required skills

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience

• 6+ years of experience with a demonstrated record of delivering software offerings to production using agile and lean methods

• High proficiency in agile practices and the ability to clearly coach teams and programs at varying maturity levels

• Data-driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery

• Excellent facilitation skills with demonstrated ability to inspire change at all levels

• Solid communication and interpersonal skills

• Experience with Jira, Trello, or open source agile life cycle management tooling like Taiga

• Comfortable operating in rapidly changing environments

• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or equivalent certification

• Experience working in and leading teams that use test-driven development (TDD) and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) is a plus

• Knowledge of the Red Hat’s offerings, the Linux operating system, open source software development, and application container technology is a plus

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About Red Hat

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Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

• Retirement 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off and holidays

• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note : These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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Posting Location : Location Remote US MA

Posting date 1 month ago (1/28/2021 8:11 AM)

Job ID 84055

Category Project Management