Engineering Coach

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Job Profile: Engineering Coach We are developing an "incubator" function as part of Technology Transformation. An incubator team will take 4-6 DevOps pods (approximately 40-60 people) at a time, and provide them with a customized training/development experience lasting approximately 10 weeks. This is to be focused on developing both Agile and Engineering competencies and will include a 1 week "boot-camp" with the entire team on location. We are looking for an experienced developer/engineer - with a passion for learning - to join our growing team, with a responsibility for delivering the technical portion of the incubator, including hands-on training, best practice coaching and the development of personalized development plans for the attendees. We expect you to:Be a people person, with a passion for sharing and learning.Have demonstrated experience developing software - preferably infrastructure - and expertise in the set of foundational development tools in use at Client(Git, Gitbub, Jenkins, Mulesoft, Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell, Python, additional: Postman, Nexus, Litmus, Cherkmarx, Sonatype).Have working knowledge of a much broader set of technology and be able to advise on appropriate use cases for the technology.Understand why the wide scale adoption of automation and APIs will increase the agility of application development teams, and be able to share this vision in a simple and accessible way.Know Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming & Scaling Frameworks like Safe inside outHave practiced team development and have the ability to develop a coaching plan for a teamBe able to demonstrate agile concepts & use of artefacts such as user stories, impact maps, story maps, big visible charts, planning, estimation, governance sessions, etc.Be comfortable teaching hands-on engineering skills to people with varying technical backgrounds.Work with globally distributed teams. Although the on-site boo-camp will be in a single location, participants may be attending from a variety of Client locations, and interaction will likely be remote.  This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:Provide team based, or 1-1 technical consultation to participants in the programme.Assist with technology onboarding (how-to’s) as participants adopt new tools for the first time.Deliver on-site training to the incubator teams, demonstrating the tools used in the code development and deployment process. Ensure that all participants leaving the boot-camp are able to demonstrate competency in the foundational toolset.Work with Product Owner and Practice leads to identify the technology skills required for successful operation of the pod.Lead a capability assessment, identifying the current level of skills for the team members.Develop a custom training plan for each team member, including signposts to appropriate training resources.As part of the longer term post boot-camp engagement, deliver regular update sessions to ensure the team is understanding the technology.Aid in maturity assessment to allow the DevOps teams to successfully demonstrate technical capability to exit the incubator.