Agile Coach - Local to the NYC Area

Due to our clients success, our client is seeking an experienced and motivated Agile Development Coach and Consultant. This person will bring development expertise to assist the client in achieving short term and long term expectations and goals. An ideal candidate would have experience and interest in extending skills. We have a significant amount of work in the New York area. We need candidates that are local / commutable to the NYC area. Requirements: Agile Coach Qualifications: * Coaching Agile project teams (bringing experience with methods such as Scrum, XP, Lean, TDD, etc.) * Consulting background is a huge plus - you will be working with multiple clients through on site collaboration and remote support * Experience leading consulting engagements * Training experience - we develop our own collateral in close partnership with leading experts in the agile community and deliver training to customer teams * Solution selling experience * Experience in leading technical teams - coaching, teaching, and guiding people in the various roles in a project driven organization * Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives * Excellent presentation skills - we value and encourage public speaking engagements and expect that youre comfortable talking to teams from an engineering level upwards * Strong knowledge and passion about Agile principles and practices - we expect that you have a solid grounding and we will support you extending your knowledge through challenging work, investment in training, and constant association with our Agile experts * Must have the willingness to travel - our clients are located across the country * 7 or more years of experience in technology / software organizations * Certified ScrumMaster (Practitioner or Trainer), Certified Facilitator, or equivalent (all pluses)

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Category:	Education/Training
	> Coach
Location:	New York, NY
County:	New York County
ZIP Code:	10001
Pay Rate:	Open
Job Terms:	full time
Company:	Kforce Inc.
Phone:	email only please
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