Digital Transformation – Agile Project Manager

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KPMG Advisory is looking to reinforce its agile team with an additional coach, to drive the adoption and optimization of lean agile values and principles at its clients. The agile coach will work directly with teams to help raise the level of agility, and plays a key role in engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organizations to help facilitating an agile transformation across the enterprise.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Digital Enablement team on business development activities, including identification, proposal development, go-to-market content and other pursuit activities
• Participate in continuously improving and positioning our KPMG Agile Transformation methodology, assets and templates as part of the go to market activities.
• Support activities during comprehensive assessments of the current state of the client delivery model, across areas ranging from tools and processes to culture and operating model and serve as Agile/SAFe/DevOps Subject Matter Professional for roadmap and delivery of the transformation
• Support efficiency measures executed through application of lean thinking, such as reduced cycle times, limiting work in progress, reduced batch size, understanding of flow, identification of waste/inefficiencies and post-mortem effort
• Participate in coaching activities across cross-functional internal and external teams on Agile and DevOps practices and principles, and participate in Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives and assist with prioritizing backlog, reducing technical debt, and pursuing Agile Fluency
• Support Client Workshops focused on Agile and DevOps Journeys with a goal for Client to adopt capabilities related to build, deploy, package and release automation within CI/CD, including environment and cloud-based forms of automation
• Understand the tools landscape to leverage the right tools to address the gaps and build the capabilities required by Engineering, IT and Test Teams to adopt modern delivery techniques

Skills & Qualifications

• You hold a master’s degree
• A minimum of four years of experience in Software Development and information technology and experience in professional services consulting delivering large transformation services and experience developing and delivering software solutions
• A minimum of one year of experience driving the adoption of and achieving successful Agile and DevOps practices across organizations and a minimum of one year of hands-on experience in an Agile Coach role
• Knowledge of providing the technical direction and successful strategy development for scaling Agile and DevOps across organization; Agile Coach certification or equivalent experience
• Experience driving scaled agile practices across organizations and understanding of Kanban Model for enhancements and maintenance projects; Scaled Agile SAFe certifications preferred
• SAFe certifications: SAFe SPC (ideal) or SAFe RTE.
• You have excellent consultancy skills to establish credibility at C-level and build long term partnerships;
• You can work independently, as well as in project teams and take ownership and responsibility;
• You are fluent in English and Dutch/French;

We offer

• A corporate culture in which personal growth, mutual trust and lifelong learning are being fostered.
• An inclusive workspace that encourages diversity and pursues mutual respect for each other’s beliefs and background.
• Professional experiences in an international and dynamic working environment with inspiring colleagues.
• Flexible, hybrid work arrangements to enable working on different locations: home office, on-site or on the go.
• A wide range of teambuilding activities and social events that enable new joiners to meet colleagues within the wider KPMG community and have some fun along the way.

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