Senior Agile Coach

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our Global IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions. 

Location for the Senior Agile Coach could be office based at our corporate office in Irvine, California. We will also consider remote locations within the US for a highly qualified top candidate.

How you will make an impact: 

• Execute Edwards’ agile transformation strategy

• Serve as an Agile leader and lead the train the trainer efforts within IT

• Coach scrum teams and leaders at every level of the organization 

• Support the agile mindset across Edwards Lifesciences 

• Mentor change champions 

• Process improvement 

What you'll need (Required): 

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field + 10 years of direct experience managing complex projects or programs. 

What else we look for (Preferred): 

Agile / Scrum mindset 

• 5+ years of Agile project or program management experience  

• Experience leading software development and ITSM teams to the scrum methodology 

• Previous experience serving an organization that has undergone an agile transformation, and overcoming challenges that arise during that transformation

• Experience using the Scrum framework, within an IT software regulated environment

• Strong understanding of agile methodologies (i.e., Scrum and Scrum@Scale) 

• Utilize an agile mindset consistent with the Scrum Core Values: openness, courage, respect, focus, commitment

• An agile champion who will promote agile practices across the organization

• Driven to accomplish objectives through coaching, inspiring, and instilling in our business and technology teams to ensure a culture of transparency, value creation, elimination of waste, continuous improvement, and a focus on frequent and rapid delivery of highest business value solutions

• Utilize expertise in agile, lean and scrum techniques while leading successful organizational change management through influence and facilitation

Coaching Skills

• 10+ years of coaching and/or training experience

• Function as a servant leader and change agent to coach individuals and teams across a large or complex business area to adopt Agile principles, values, and practices while role modeling leadership behaviors

• Understand and support implementation of metrics to optimize delivery of KPIs and OKR’s through assessment of responsiveness, quality, productivity, and customer and business value

• Facilitate workshops and trainings on Agile topics, leveraging toolkits and internally developed content

• Actively raise observed issues and partner with teams and leaders to remove impediments and resolve conflicts

• Continuously assess the Agile maturity of teams and individuals at all levels of leadership, educating and mentoring to address gaps

• Contribute to internal and external Agile communities to stay abreast of challenges, leading practices, and emerging trends

• Excellent team relationship building skills that enable transparent conversations

• Demonstrate a relentless positivity that allows the team to overcome challenges that may seem insurmountable

• Conflict resolution skills including empathy and radical candor (caring personally while challenging directly) 

• Motivate and help teams build confidence in a new way of working

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $123,000 to $174,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).   

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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