Agile Consultant

Job description / Role

• Establish and implement ITSM frame works at the organization, with a focus on change management adopting the agile/scrum methodologies.
• Responsible for helping individuals and teams adopt Agile methods and mind-sets to promote an Agile transformation and work frame, increase consistency, and help the business to engage and empower employees, enhancing the value of service provided to customers.
• Manage one or more agile projects, typically to deliver a specific product or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled team.

Key accountabilities
• Maintain and administer the Tech/IT change management plan and log including proper and robust documentation on system/product development history and releases.
• Influence technical, commercial, product and design teams, including vendors, to em-brace the Agile method
• Build a trusting environment where problems can be raised and everyone is focused on problem resolution with a positive attitude.
• Build an environment where tasks are taken and executed without having to assign or dictate.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving culture of transparency and openness.
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of the organization to empower and enable teams to execute through embracing the agile method
• Help teams assess the overall health of their Agile practices and culture to identify opportunities to improve and provide coaching to improve.
• Manage and run several work streams with several teams in parallel day-to-day

Requirements

Education
• Bachelor or Masters degree in telecommunications or IT degree with experience in Telecoms
• Second level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM II)
• Project Management Training (PMP/Agile/Prince2/Scrum)
• ITIL/ITSM certification is a plus
• Additional training courses and seminars is a plus
• Business studies would be welcomed

Professional qualification
• At least 10 years of significant experience as Scrum Master role on big projects
• Demonstrated past success running multi-stream projects with Agile
• Have knowledge and skill to use a variety Agile techniques (i.e. User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games)

About the Company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.