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At edward jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutionsTo ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.
A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team`s ability to build deep relationships with clientsHeadquarters associates in stLouis and tempe provide support and expertise to help u.sAnd canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experienceEdward jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investorsThe srAgile coach (aka dojo coach) is responsible for the education and adoption of lean-agile and product practices and mindset with product teams (includes po, sm and engineers) during engagements with the dojoThe dojo coach will evaluate a product teams operational health (eGTeam dynamics, agile delivery, product awareness) in order to identify opportunity for improvements, and help these teams mature their practices and more effectively embrace an agile and product mindsetThis role will be accountable for partnering with the enterprise coach (lead agile coach) to develop a dojo coaching plan for product teams entering the dojo in order to achieve the educational goal for the team while in the dojoThis role will also be accountable for partnering with the technical coach to ensure a seamless integrated learning experience for agile, product and technology practices and values for the edward jones product teams.
What you will do:
Develop an enterprise strategy for the dojo including vision, mission, value proposition, kpis, and operating model.
For each team engagement, formally create and execute against a dojo coaching plan and communicate to product team and the team`s leader chain (up to director).
Ensure product teams can demonstrate their learning based on the educational goals by the end of the dojo challenge.
Formally communicate the outcomes (positive and negative) of the dojo challenge and key coaching observations with the product team and the team`s leader chain (up to vp).
Ensure all product teams have a positive learning experience in the dojo (achieve a net promoter score of 40+).
The dojo coach will be an advocate and educator for agile and product principles and related methodologies and practices within the dojoAs such, these individuals will need to be involved with internal and external agile networks in order to stay current on best practices and strategies related to this way of workingPartnership and learning are cornerstones of the agile mind set, thus the dojo coach will need to actively participate in thought leadership within these agile communities and seek out opportunities to continuously improve their own skills in order to better support the product teams.
Participate in internal community of practices and foster internal relationships across the enterprise.
Participate in external professional organizations relevant to this role.
Attend and/or present at conferences, trade shows, or industry events.
Key responsibilities:
Provide strategic consulting and support for teams, business owners and leaders.
Understand firm vision and strategy, and ensure program goals, business direction, and technical direction all align to support the vision and strategy
Work closely with other internal and external coaches to ensure agile alignment of messaging and methodology used across the firm
Work closely with agile teams, release train engineers, scrum masters, product delivery managers and product owners to determine strengths and weaknesses and set action plans for continuous and relentless improvement
Be an ambassador for the agile mindset and a catalyst for change in the organization
Participate in coaches working groups or centers of excellence to develop and build strategies for transformation (i.eScaling agile, advancing team maturity, etc)
Coach and offer guidance to other agile coaches
Apply and encourage autonomy, mastery and purpose and a pragmatic approach
Contributing to internal web and email content to update the firm on current and upcoming agile initiatives
Work with both internal and external coaches to develop and implement programs and plans that will assist with continuing the success of the agile transformation
Agile certifications (scrum master, safe/scaling, product owner, coaching, etc.)
5+ years agile coaching experience
Lean, kanban, continuous improvement, process experience/certifications
Devops experience (build automation, test automation, test driven development (tdd), continuous integration (ci), continuous development (cd), infrastructure as code, etc.)
Technical/development experience (java/oOPCoding, scripting, infrastructure development, application development)
Design, ux experience
Active engagement in external agile and product communities with a network of professional contacts outside of the organization
Fortune 2020 – edward jones was named no7 on the 2020 fortune 100 best companies to work for® list.
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Edward jones ranked no6 of the 100 best workplaces for millennials by great place to work and fortune magazine.
2020 corporate equality index – edward jones joins the ranks of 680 major u.s businesses that received top marks in the hrc foundations 18th annual scorecard on lbgtq workplace equality
Edward jones named a top company for training, ranking no25 on training magazine`s 2020 training top 125 list – the highest ranking among the financial-services industry!
Financial services firm edward jones has been named one of the 2019 best workplaces for parents by great place to work and fortune magazineThe firm ranked no5 on the list of 50 companies, up two spots from last year.
The best workplaces for parents list is one of a series of rankings by great place to work and fortune based on employee feedback from great place to work-certified™ organizationsEdward jones ranked no7 on the fortune 100 best companies to work for in 2019 list, the firm’s 20th appearance on the listThe firm also was ranked the no1 best workplace in financial services & insurance and the no6 best workplace for millennials by great place to work and fortune.
Edward jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable lawAt edward jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-beingVisit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharingThe salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:
