Principal Agile Practitioner - AI Platform Core Components

Job Summary

The AI Platform Core Components organization, part of AI Engineering, is looking for individuals with passion for fostering an agile culture and helping grow the impact of Red Hat’s AI offerings for our customers and the community. The focus of our rapidly growing organization is to provide independence for AI Engineering on implementing AI accelerators and core layers of the stack. In the position of Principal Agile Practitioner, you will have an exciting opportunity to encourage generative AI innovation through open source, contribute to the agile development and maintenance of the services provided by our organization, and be at the forefront of the exciting evolution of AI. You will join an ecosystem that promotes collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development.

If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment where each day provides interesting challenges and opportunities, this might be just the place for you. As the lead of the AI Platform Core Component's team of agile practitioners, you will have the opportunity to develop and nurture the agile culture of an entire organization. You will engage with stakeholders, engineering teams, and entire departments to promote and cultivate an agile mindset. As an individual contributor, you will coach and mentor the organizational leadership and a subset of teams and ensure consistent application of agile best practices and tools. Just as importantly, you will be collaborating closely with like-minded agile professionals working with teams of their own as we build out an open organization that fully encourages agile values and principles, and where everyone’s contributions and thoughts are valued and regarded. At Red Hat, we focus on respectful adoption of agility through the identification and resolution of existing challenges rather than implementation of specific frameworks.

What you will do

• Evangelize agile mindset, values, and principles to promote agility across the organization

• Establish collaborative partnerships and coach several cross-functional and distributed teams to advise them on their journey of continuous improvement

• Guide the organization in work and priorities visualization and tracking to ensure transparency and predictability

• Support new teams in their formation, goal setting and prioritization, and iteration commitment

• Introduce new ideas and processes that improve organizational collaboration, effectiveness, performance, productivity, and overall contentment

• Identify and address systemic impediments hindering progress

• Provide training in areas where agile concepts are new or not followed

• Establish and foster a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and solutions found

• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Drive continuous improvement on the team, organization, and department level through regular retrospection

• Mentor and coach Product Managers and Product Owners, especially with respect to priorities definition and backlog management

• Mentor and coach other organizational leaders on agility and continuous improvement

• Collaborate closely with other agile practitioners and project managers to build and influence an agile organization where best practices are followed

• Facilitate cross-team and cross-department collaboration and coordination through reaching out to the larger organization for project mapping, dependency tracking, and impediment removal

• Maintain and utilize the knowledge of the latest industry trends in agile methodologies

What you will bring

• Proven experience with developing agile strategies aligned with organizational goals

• Hands-on expertise in collaborating on complex agile transformations across various teams, organizations, and departments

• Demonstrated track record of coaching teams at varying maturity levels on using agile and lean methods and delivering software products to production

• Great facilitation skills with demonstrated ability to influence change

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Experience with Jira or other agile lifecycle management tools

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) + Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), or equivalent certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology or combination of relevant education and experience

These skills are considered as a bonus

• Certified Team Coach (CTC), Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), or Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC)

• Technical skills, knowledge of Red Hat products, or understanding of open source development models

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