Senior Lead Engineer - IT

india

📍 chennai india🕐 1mo ago🔗 workday

Job Description

**Job Description:** -------------------- **Job Summary:** The Team Coach - Coaching & Transformation for India supports the scaling and sustained adoption of BTOM-aligned ways of working and promotes consistent, high-quality coaching practices across assigned product teams and value streams **Job Description:**  * Coach product teams on agile practices to drive delivery discipline and predictability. Provide 1:1 role-based coaching for Product Owners and other team members to strengthen agile maturity. * Apply coaching methodologies to support cross-functional product teams in improving collaboration, enhancing delivery cadence, and achieving outcomes aligned with product goals. * Facilitate team-level ceremonies (e.g., planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) to ensure effective collaboration, alignment, and dependency management. * Coordinate with other teams to manage cross-team dependencies and maintain alignment. Escalate blockers to senior coaches or leadership as needed to ensure timely resolution. * Support teams in improving performance through ongoing inspection of team practices and adoption of new approaches. * Work with teams to define and develop objectives and key results (OKRs) aligned with enterprise and value stream priorities; assist in tracking progress through performance dashboards. * Guide teams to leverage flow and outcome metrics effectively to inform improvement; support development of targeted coaching plans to enhance team performance and maturity. * Contribute as a member of the Center of Excellence by adopting standards, sharing learnings, and supporting continuous evolution of the operating model. * Partner with Product Owners to build and maintain a strong backlog aligned with product strategy and priorities. * Collaborate with stakeholders to support team needs and maintain alignment with product goals. * Reinforce team understanding of how their work contributes to product and value stream OKRs. **Must have:**   * 9–10 years of experience in roles such as Scrum Master or Agile Coach, working with agile teams in a scaled environment. * Good knowledge of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) with experience in agile delivery practices and ability to reinforce strong team habits. * Ability to coach teams using supportive and adaptive techniques to drive continuous improvement. * Experience with agile tooling (e.g., Jira, SPM) and applying best practices for team-level adoption. * Exposure to OKR development and outcome-based performance tracking. * Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and technology delivery. * Familiarity with product platform constructs preferred. * Working knowledge of engineering practices such as test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps. * Good facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills. * Ability to maintain alignment and transparency across teams and stakeholders. **Good to have skills**: * Developing enterprise mindset beyond team-level execution * Ownership and accountability for team-level outcomes * Inclination towards action, experimentation, and continuous improvement **Location:** ------------- This position can be based in any of the following locations: Chennai **Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday**