Agile Coach-Work from home-eviCore (Personal Services)

Remote, Work from Home, United States

This role will partner closely with the Agile Center of Excellence Leader to promote Agile adoption and transformation across the company. The Coach will provide mentoring, guidance and consulting on applying Agile methodologies in support of the eviCore's Agile continuous improvement initiative. Candidate will have demonstrated experience in driving change across a mid-size or large organization, have outstanding facilitation skills, conflict resolution skills, and deep experience mentoring scrum masters, product owners, development teams, and leadership. The Coach will utilize his/her in-depth knowledge in the application of Agile, particularly Scrum and Kanban practices and experience to be able to inspect and adapt thinking/practices to various situations. Will work with several (mainly) co-located teams, helping them to fully understand how to apply the Agile framework to delivering software in a complex health-care solutions environment. Some travel is expected (up to 15%).

• Provide leadership in evaluating the maturity of Agile framework and suggests improvement opportunities
  
• Coach product owners, scrum masters, stakeholders, development teams and act as subject matter expert on Agile, Scrum and Kanban capabilities
  
• Coach scrum masters on collaboration with product owners around backlog creation and grooming to ensure vision, roadmap, and personas are well-defined and understood
  
• Assist in conducting joint planning sessions and joint retrospectives for Agile program teams
  
• Assist Agile teams with joint planning events and coordination with non-Agile teams
  
• Evaluate and mentor existing Agile teams, as well as deliver training classes for domain leaders, program managers, product owners, scrum masters, development team members
  
• Develop, implement and evaluate team metrics and make recommendations to teams and management for improvements
  
• Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles, and increasing their predictability, collaboration, and quality practices.
  
• Support the Enterprise Agile Leader to develop an enterprise Agile Center of Excellence with consistent training and coaching available
  
• Keep abreast of new and evolving techniques, methods and strategies in Agile, Scrum and Kanban and other delivery frameworks
  
• Facilitate and promote Communities of Practice
  
• Enable removal of impediments for Agile teams
  

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Agile certification as either: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Product Owner (CSPO), or Agile Practitioner (ACP). Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Team Coach (CTC), or Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) preferred.

Minimum Experience required (number of years necessary to perform role) :

• 3+ years' experience working with/implementing Agile, Scrum.
  
• 5-7 years' experience in delivering complex technology solutions in a program or application development management role.
  
• Ability to interface and influence at all levels in the organization
  
• Strong facilitation, conflict-resolutions skills and the ability to work in collaborative environments
  
• Comfortable working with distributed teams and bringing structure to ambiguous environments
  

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.

About Cigna

Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. We offer an integrated suite of health services through Cigna, Express Scripts, and our affiliates including medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and other related products. Together, with our 74,000 employees worldwide, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation.

When you work with Cigna, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives while working together to make the world a healthier place. What difference will you make? To see our culture in action, search #TeamCigna on Instagram.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.