Agile Team Facilitator (ATF)- Software Engineering-SAP

Accountabilities: 

• Facilitate Cohort events (Squad of Squads) such as Cohort Increment Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Solution Demo, Cohort Inspect & Adapt, etc.
• Teach/Participate Cohort Leadership Trio in the managing Product roadmap and progress tracking using Jira & Jira Portfolio plugin
• Guard squads to help them focus on business value, coach Product Management, and Product Owner in ways to enhance the clarity of intent.
• Partner with people managers to provide the competencies and skills needed to enable the environment for results.
• Coach Squad ATFs within Cohort to foster the flow of value delivery
• Facilitate/Collaborate Cross-squads and cross-cohorts impacts and risk management
• Facilitate/ Coordinate the integration of Squad’s Increment within Cohort
• Guide Agile Team Facilitators on impediments removal
• Partner with Product Manager, Product Owner, and Service Delivery Managers to ensure awareness of Total Cost of Ownership, and balance the prioritization of technical debt and SRT fixes.
• Encourage interactions and collaboration with Chapter Squads and Legacy Waterfall teams to foster value delivery
• Encourages and enables open and honest communication among the Squads, including the Product Owner(s) & Product Manager
• Situationally applies the values and principles of both agile and lean in practice
• Ensure Cohort events are effective and achieve its desired outcomes
• Coach Employees on Operating model at scale
• Help organization towards empiricism and culture of continuous improvement
• Coaching the team on estimation and planning methods and help team to choose right estimation methods and support them during the Product planning activities.
• Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.
• Collaborating with US-based teams to India based team to provide SAP FI functional, SAP Basis, and SAP ABAP App Dev capabilities for projects, continuous improvement initiatives and run support

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in Software Life Cycle with Application Development/Enhancement background sole contributor in one or more SAP areas
• Strong experience and understanding of Agile methodology
• Ability to coach/train others on Agile best practices
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach
• 5+ years’ experience in Agile Execution, SAP functional and/or technical background is preferred
• Good project management and follow-up skills
• Experience acting as a servant-leader

Agile/Scrum Certifications a plus

Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.