Agile Coach

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199 000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centred on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all of its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporates and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About Businessline/Function :

For 150 years, BNP Paribas Wealth Management has been committed to protecting clients’ wealth, developing it, and eventually passing it on to their loved ones. We deliver tailor-made experience, with outstanding attention to detail and expertise from precise local knowledge to the global know-how that we access from the Group. Our goal is to create a new wealth management experience fit for a world where digital interactions have come to enhance human ones. Wealth Management Investment Solution Hub (WMIS Hub) provides a global IT solution for BNP Paribas Wealth Management where we develop, maintain and evolve IT applications which fits to the specific needs of BNP Paribas Wealth Management business users.

Job Title:

Agile Coach

Date:

Sep 2023

Department:

WMIS

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function:

IT Processes, Design & Sourcing Strategy / Design Chapter

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade:

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The incumbent coach will work at the three layers of the enterprise model: strategic, coordination and delivery. With the objective to develop and establish agile standards and assets in alignment to organization model (studio principles) and thereafter to deploy such standards and assets within the Organization.

The incumbent will be responsible to help the squads to develop a set of self-regulation and reflective skills to bring about sustainable transformation in line with the organizational processes.  This is done through close collaboration with Wealth Management Information Services (WMIS) resources with systematic approach, which is well documented.

As an agile coach, the incumbent will guide the teams in using agile best practices to initiate software improvements and increase productivity in both scrum and non-scrum squads.  Candidate will also organize, develop and deliver trainings and workshops to maintain and/ improve the expected outcome from the projects.

Responsibilities

As Agile Coach:

·       Training:

o    Educate employees at all levels, including senior, and at times internal clients, on Agile principles

o    Provide teams with tools for implementing the process in their own work.

o    Provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of agile methodologies.

·       Mentoring:

o    Responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology

o    Provide employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions.

o    Provide hands-on support to all employees, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall company growth and improvement.

·       Improve agile adoption :

o    Responsible for designing a strategy for the organizational adoption of Agile.

o    This includes every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.

o    Specific focus on WM Transformation program

§  Objectives and Key Result Definition for Transformation Program (Tiger: IT Transformation Program of WM), and subsequent Streams.

§  Tribe implementation between IT and Business around streams constituting the Tiger Program

§  Team Kick-Off workshop establishing Roles and Responsibilities, Flow of Work, Product Vision and Product Backlog among others

§  Other Agile related training and ad-hoc workshop decided over the period.

As a consultant for BNP Paribas :

·       Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines

·       Maintain professional behavior and collaborate with same and other team members respectfully and positively.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

·       At least 10 years of experience in IT with proven track record, including minimum 3 years of experience in agile coaching

·       Must have worked on at latest 1 successful agile transformation in one of the scaled agile frameworks

·       Excellent written and oral communication, especially enabling visibility and transparency

·       Practical team experience with Scrum, Kanban, and/or XP practices

·       Large and small group facilitation experience, working with varying levels of technical knowledge

·       Continuous improvement mindset and understanding of the core tenants of Agile

·       Strong Stakeholder management to properly manage business expectations and help them with agile adoption.

·       Thoroughness to ensure all teams (WMIS and Business) get the agile training and support required

·       Must have experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe, LeSS), or other scaling strategies

·       Pragmatic approach to enacting change, in individuals and groups

·       Nice to have: Bachelor degree with major in Computer Science

·       Experience of Atlassian Suites, in particular JIRA and Confluence

·       Deep knowledge and experience on MS suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Form)

·       Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

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Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Communication skills - oral & written

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 10 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

Here at BNP Paribas Wealth Management, we are working for a world-leading bank in Wealth Management. We are WMIS, a global IT team built to keep our bank at the forefront of new technologies and innovation. We are passionate, smart and driven designers, developers, scrum masters, product specialists, coaches…. We are user focused. We work all together as one autonomous team. Currently, we are looking for a new team member.

Just share with us your best profiles, explaining all the nice things you could bring to our Studio (ie our operating model), and we will keep in touch!

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