About the Role
As an Agile Coach, you are at the forefront of transforming our organisation to be more agile, focusing on making a difference to Swiss Re. You are part of the cultural transformation to move our enterprise towards a tech and data-driven risk knowledge company. As an experienced change leader, you'll help our employees and management to understand and support the agile way of working. You will be a key player to drive the current agile transformation initiative in Information Technology in the GTS Digital Workplace Functional Area, by coaching and supporting all involved teams and people on their agile transformation. As a catalyst, you drive continuous improvements and changes across the GTS Digital Workplace area.
On this role, you will:
Train and coach the GTS Digital Workplace Area in Agile techniques using empirical methods and practices so that the team is firmly on a path of continuous improvement and self-learning.
Work with the organization to implement different approaches to delivering change using various Agile techniques and practices.
Support the organization and the different teams at various stages of their Agile journey, identify and address impediments.
Develop & coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Leaders, and more.
Consult and provide guidance on specific issues raised during the Agile journey across the organization.
Design, maintain, and develop the agile governance and best practices continuously.
Coach and support the GTS Digital Workplace Leadership team into a Catalyst Leadership.
Help the organization embrace agile as a cultural shift.
You will be expected to:
Identify continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the work of the Product Area(s).
Mentor and lead the Scrum Masters of the GTS Functional Area, both as a coach and as a line manager.
Ensure planning and value delivery cadence across all Product Areas and Squads of the GTS Functional Area.
Contribute your 'Catalyst Leader' capabilities - co-creating a shared vision; developing high participation; empowering people and teams; transformative change; growing business unit capability.
Demonstrate knowledge of data-driven techniques & strategies to teach a team how to validate business assumptions using data to drive predictable value delivery.
Support the agile teams with the right knowledge, tools, and training so that they'll be able to use agile to its full potential.
Identify process issues and improve them.
Act as deputy during Scrum Masters' absences, and act as "initial Scrum Master" for new arising initiatives and Squads.
About the Team
We in GTS Digital Workplace set out to make it easy for 18,000 employees to use their digital workplace to seamlessly connect with people, ideas, and expertise within and beyond Swiss Re. Our key to success is ensuring we understand the business needs of our internal clients, so that we can identify the relevant technologies that will benefit them and focus on helping them to adopt more thoughtful ways of working. GTS Digital Workplace provides groundbreaking products, services, and support enabling Swiss Re's workforce to work from anywhere (remote and in every location), anytime in a stable and secured environment; giving them the time to focus and innovate. Digital Workplace is an early adopter of agile methodologies and shared leadership within Swiss Re.
About you
We are happy to meet you if you possess:
Passion for agile work culture, methods, and leadership styles.
More than 10 years change leadership experience.
A true leader mentality and reputation.
Expertise in Scrum and/or Kanban or equivalent knowledge.
Extensive experience in forming teams and driving continuous improvement and self-management within a Product Area or Business Unit.
Capabilities to act as a catalyst to motivate change in a Business Unit but also drive improvement and change to positively challenge the norm where the issues are outside of a business unit's control.
Abilities to support major process improvements within the GTS Digital Workplace area.
A solid experience of working with a multicultural team of service delivery specialists.
Experience with line management duties for 4-6 Scrum Masters.
Full professional level in English.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Swiss Re offers modern work models and attractive workplaces that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other financial services.
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