Agile Engagement Lead Open Ination Labs APAC

Job Description

Agile Engagement Lead, Open Innovation Labs, APACLocation Remote AustraliaPosting date 2 days ago(6/24/2021 7:08 AM)Job ID 87767 Category Consulting Job summary Become the heartbeat of an Open Innovation Labs (Labs) residency, coaching, and nurturing novice customers. The Red Hat Labs team is looking for an Agile Engagement Lead to cover the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to join us in Australia. In this role, you will use a variety of agile and modern application development practices, along with emerging technologies from open source communities. Youll work together with small teams of consulting engineers and customers to build, test, and iterate innovative application prototypes which deliver real business value. Youll also be involved in the wider transformation our customers are going through, serving as the catalyst of these transformations. For this reason, youll need to have solid transformation knowledge and feel comfortable talking to C-level executives about how we can support their business goals, running workshops, and putting together strategic proposals that support these initiatives. As an Agile Engagement Lead, youll support everything from the selling and scoping of Labs residencies and projects to guiding the delivery teams implementation of these projects, ensuring customer success. Project Management experience is key for managing the engagement, you will have control and oversight from kickoff to closeout, determining scope details and monitoring the projects progress to ensure that it conforms to customer expectations and contractual agreements. Primary job responsibilities

• Inspire customers to embrace Red Hats open approach as a means of transforming not only what they do, but how they do it
• Innovate our current thinking and develop new approaches to change how organizations and teams deliver software and systems
• Develop teams of agile coaches, developers, and testers to embrace the agile methodology and identify and resolve impediments
• Work with customers on initiatives to support agile transformations across business and technical teams
• Serve as an agile project manager for Labs residencies, including residency planning and management, team management, process management and improvement, team building, and support and coaching of the owners of our offerings
• Coach owners of our offerings to create product vision and roadmap
• Support teams in converting existing product requirement documents to product backlogs
• Coach owners of our offerings to write effective user stories, prioritize backlog based on business value, and track value points in sprints
• Handle change management and escalations
• Manage the engagement in terms of time, scope and resourcing
• Support sales and business development for the Labs
• Create efficient, quality proposals for customers by ensuring that all needs are defined through analyses of customer environments and expectations
• Build interpersonal relationships with other Red Hat teams and serve as a trusted adviser for major Red Hats customers

Required skills

• Experience working in customer-facing positions as a professional services consultant
• Project Management (PMP) certification
• 5+ years of experience as a senior scrum master with a coaching mentality in an agile environment with an organization that ships software (Scrum Certification)
• Solid experience using agile project management tools and methods
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills; solid written and verbal communication skills and ability to present to C-level executives
• Experience in sales or supporting the sales of professional services, including the development of the statements of work (SOWs), pricing, large-scale proposal development, and customer development
• Excellent writing skills
• Willingness to travel up to 50%
• Bachelors or MBA degree is a plus

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Keyskills :
change managementagile project managementaccess managementopen sourcestatements of workincident managementopen source softwarescrum masterteam buildinghybrid clouduser storiesdeliverycerner