COMPANY INTRODUCTIONEmirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.ORGANIZATION UNIT PURPOSEFor each major business unit in ENBD, Group IT deliver system solutions through new initiatives and provide specialized support to ensure smooth functioning of these solutions. ’Running the Business’ and ‘Growing the Business’ are the two key objectives of business units that get supported by the IT domain. ‘Growing the Business’ comprises of ensuring quality in identification of appropriate and optimal IT solutions for the new business avenues, ensuring quality plans that will enable delivery within committed budgets of time and cost. ‘Running the Business’ is achieved by ensuring all services required to run the business are available as per the agreed service levels. This comprises of timely identification and resolution of incidents through the certified IT Governance model of incident and problem management and timely closure of service requests. While performing both these functions, the IT domain will ensure all the functions of the domain are adequately supported and governed by the certified Group IT processes.JOB PURPOSEThe Agile Coach drives the Agile Maturity of the organization by inspiring a culture that is built on Agile Principles, tools & techniques, including but not limited to Scrum/Kanban.As a true servant leader, mentor and coach, they maximize performance of squads/teams & tribes by sharing their expert knowledge in all things Agile. Lead Scrum Master interfaces with leadership across Group IT & business to ensure consistent and efficient delivery of value-based products and services.JOB RESPONSIBILITIESCoach the tribe on excellence of Agile ceremonies and practices.Lead the tribe to create culture based on continuous improvement.Coach the Product owner in improving user story refining, backlog refining and sprint planning techniques.Drive transparency and governance on the progress of agile maturity to the business owners and stakeholders.Provide coaching and workshops as needed (ex. Simulations on Empirical Planning, excellent user stories examples).Servant leader mindset.Demonstrate leadership capabilities while working with cross-functional distributed teams.Helping the teams to adapt with the changes for example changing from Waterfall to Agile. Conduct the community of practice.Responsible for improving Agile Maturity across the tribe.Familiar of Application Lifecyle Management tools such as Jira, confluence. Establish Effective governance & Efficient communication across the tribe. To guide on structure and cadence that would enable value-based delivery.Help to plan the journey and define the roadmap for Agile Maturity.Cooperate with the tribe leadership to gain a detailed visibility across the quarterly roadmap (Through running Quarterly Plannings).Establish strong relationships with stakeholders / product owners to understand strategic, tactical and operational challenges in Business units, define technology solutions to address and arrive solutions.Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on transforming towards Agile.Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions.Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously ‘pivot’ to arrive at the highest impact answer for the client.KEY REQUIREMENTSEducation/CertificationsUndergraduate Degree in Engineering or Computer ScienceAgile Methodology CertificationCoaching CertificationExperiences8+ years of hands-on experience in Agile Methodology.3+ years of relevant experience in the Banking & Financial domains.Knowledge & SkillsLeadership & Agile managementBehavioralConceptual Thinking, Strategic Orientation, Team Leadership, Analytical Thinking, Innovation, Flexibility, Integrity.WHY JOIN US?We aspire to be an employee’s employer of choice. We believe, we can help you realize your true potential by providing the right opportunities. At Emirates NBD we are reimagining the future of work so that you can unlock your potential, every day we want to ensure, every employee can exceed in the future of work by upskilling, building new digital skills and knowledge. Our goal is to empower our employees to build career experiences and skills they need in the future and that will produce a great outcome for our bank as well, we want our employees no matter their background, location, preferences to feel engaged to one Emirates NBD team.We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. ENBD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, however due to high volume of applicants, only SHORTLISTED candidates will be contacted.
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Agile Coach