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Conchango is one of the UK’s leading business and technology solution providers and a member of the Agile Alliance.  We pride ourself on the passion of our employees, the quality of our project work, and the calibre of our clients. Our clients include Virgin Atlantic, Lloyds of London, Vodafone, Debenhams, Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Reuters and Chevron.  Conchango is the UK’s leader in Agile development using the Scrum methodology and a Microsoft Gold Partner in 7 competencies.

  We are looking to expand our Agile Coaching team and have an opportunity for someone who will:

·       Have a passion for Agile

·       Have great facilitation and communication skills

·       Be able to reference broad experience of Agile project delivery

·       Demonstrate empathy, common sense and pragmatism

·       Lead workshops with customer’s or Conchango own development teams to improve understanding and performance

·       Provide Agile training to customer management and delivery teams

·       Provide one-to-one Agile coaching

·       Assist customers adopt Agile at an enterprise level

·       Input into Conchango’s Agile templates and tools

·       Assist customers adopt Agile tools (where appropriate)

·       Represent Conchango at Agile Community and other related events

·       Provide presales support for consultancy project bids

·       Take an active role in communities (internal interest groups) to assist in:

o      Working to improve Conchango’s Agile service offerings

o      Fostering Agile knowledge throughout the organisation

Essential Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles behind Agile approaches backed up by first hand experience of both classic and Agile projects.

Required skills

·       General understanding of development methodologies and processes

·       In depth knowledge of one or more Agile frameworks

·       First class communication skills

·       Be able to relate to both business and technology people

·       Workshop leadership and facilitation including Agile retrospectives

·       Mentoring and Coaching

·       Presentation skills

·       Preparation and delivery of Agile training courses

·       A good understanding of development practices such as source code control, change management, documentation.

·       Understanding and exposure to XP development techniques such as unit testing, test driven development, continuous integration

·       Development platform technology awareness

Desirable Skills

·       Project experience of Agile tools

·       Organisational change management

·       Agile training certification

Required Competencies

·       Take ownership and responsibility

·       Eye for detail and quality

·       Flexible

·       Self starter

·       Works well within a team or individually

·       Must be able to manage own time successfully

·       Excellent communication skills, at both a technical and non technical level

·       Ability to Communicate and present to clients

·       Desire to broaden knowledge and expand skills

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Regards

Michelle & Danni

Conchango UK Recruitment Team