SAP SAFe Agile Coach

Responsible for embedding SAFe ways of working across the SAP S/4HANA program. Duties include coaching ARTs, RTEs, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and leadership on Lean-Agile principles, PI planning, scrum-of-scrums, and continuous delivery. The SAFe Agile Coach is an advocate for adherence to SAFe practices and drives alignment across business units, vendors, and ART teams. The Coach communicates with program stakeholders to understand maturity needs and develops coaching plans to address them. The Agile Coach also maintains insight into Lean-Agile best practices, trends, and tooling, and determines coaching and uplift strategies.

Responsibilities

0 to 15+ years of Agile delivery experience with a bachelor's degree in business, sciences or engineering  

Subject Matter Expertise in SAFe (SPC/SA preferred), PI planning, scrum-of-scrums, and large-scale SAP S/4HANA delivery  

Strong understanding of Business Processes, Solution Manager, and Leading practices  

Creating business strategy, business process definition and design thinking approaches  

Facilitating design sessions with small to large groups through challenging discussions  

Serve as the solution lead on strategic initiatives. Prepare and provide input to plans and staffing models, cost estimates, and project deliverables. Work with large cross-functional teams.  

Ability to work through and solve complex problems and deal with ambiguity on changing environments, learn quickly and teach others  

Develop solutions to complex problems, which require regular use of ingenuity and innovation.  

Ensure analytics solutions are consistent with organization objectives and global design.  

Lead and/or participate in cross-functional analytics driven business improvement initiatives  

Evaluate business solutions and lead the selection of the best solution with the highest benefit  

Relationship Management - Partner and collaborate with project teams and client users.  

Individual Accountabilities - Strong results orientation (driving to deadlines, project goals, etc.)  

Document clear and complete requirements for complex solutions  

Analyze current customer investments on S/4HANA solutions and platforms and provide futuristic roadmap with realistic and optimal implementation initiatives  

Assume responsibility for successful implementation of S/4HANA Solutions

Qualifications

0 to 15+ years of Agile delivery experience with a bachelor's degree in business, sciences or engineering  

Subject Matter Expertise in SAFe (SPC/SA preferred), PI planning, scrum-of-scrums, and large-scale SAP S/4HANA delivery  

Strong understanding of Business Processes, Solution Manager, and Leading practices  

Creating business strategy, business process definition and design thinking approaches  

Facilitating design sessions with small to large groups through challenging discussions  

Serve as the solution lead on strategic initiatives. Prepare and provide input to plans and staffing models, cost estimates, and project deliverables. Work with large cross-functional teams.  

Ability to work through and solve complex problems and deal with ambiguity on changing environments, learn quickly and teach others  

Develop solutions to complex problems, which require regular use of ingenuity and innovation.  

Ensure analytics solutions are consistent with organization objectives and global design.  

Lead and/or participate in cross-functional analytics driven business improvement initiatives  

Evaluate business solutions and lead the selection of the best solution with the highest benefit  

Relationship Management - Partner and collaborate with project teams and client users.  

Individual Accountabilities - Strong results orientation (driving to deadlines, project goals, etc.)  

Document clear and complete requirements for complex solutions  

Analyze current customer investments on S/4HANA solutions and platforms and provide futuristic roadmap with realistic and optimal implementation initiatives  

Assume responsibility for successful implementation of S/4HANA Solutions