Senior Agile Business Specialist

Job Summary

RTE Accountabilities / Job Spec • Facilitate Agile Planning and Events: Accountable to ensure readiness across scope, content and logistics to deliver value through facilitation of team of teams events. • Support Planning Execution: Monitor planning execution, facilitate periodic synchronization events, and support cross-team backlog refinement to ensure strategic alignment to business goals. • Coach Cross-Team Agile: Provide coaching to teams and Scrum Masters on cross-team agile principles, team events, and practices • Mitigate Risks: Identify and track cross-team dependencies and risks, ensuring mitigation to support delivery of outcomes. Accountable to remove blockers. • Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors), build trust with stakeholders, and drive stakeholder alignment • Champion Ways of Working: Champion Ways of Working and Agile culture, creating a safe and trusting environment for team members to share ideas and take appropriate risks • Coordinate Interlock and Dependency Management: Drive partnership and synchronization across teams to facilitate release management across stakeholder groups. Accountable for effective readiness and communication • Optimize Flow: Drive towards relentless improvement and ensure value delivery by monitoring delivery status, ensuring technology use and data quality, addressing bottlenecks, and serving as a point of escalation • Metrics and Reporting: Track and report key metrics to provide representation at required leadership and governance forums and to ensure continuous delivery improvement

Key Responsibilities

1. Conduct in-depth business analysis to understand current processes and identify areas for enhancement.
2. Develop business requirements documentation and user stories to support agile projects.
3. Facilitate stakeholder workshops and meetings to gather requirements and ensure project success.
4. Work closely with development teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
5. Implement agile methodologies to improve project delivery efficiency and effectiveness.
6. Perform impact analysis and risk assessment to mitigate potential project issues.
7. Provide subject matter expertise in business processes and recommend best practices for optimization.
8. Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and project managers to prioritize deliverables and drive project timelines.

Skill Requirements

1. Strong proficiency in business analysis techniques and tools.
2. In-depth knowledge and practical experience in agile methodologies.
3. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder management.
4. Ability to work in a fast paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
5. Analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities to drive process improvements.
6. Proven track record in requirements gathering, documentation, and analysis.
7. Agile certification such as certified scrum master (csm) or equivalent is a plus.

Other Requirements

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