The role of the coach is to help the product development teams to adopt best practices for developing, testing, deploying and releasing applications.
In this role it's important to have an end-to-end SDLC view with strong technical and coaching skills.
You will improve deliverables of the team by
- training and assisting them to analyse their current situation
- helping them build a plan choosing improvements from following services
- Software craftsmanship
- BDD/TDD
- CI/CD
- Value Stream Mapping
- Agile Testing
- Gherkin (DSL)
- Trunk base development
- You will work with the squads of the tribe and other DevOps squad coaches to improve the way of working by
- Helping to identify and fix key pain points in the process
- Facilitating the relationship with the tools teams. Help the tool(s) team to understand what the development teams need. Help the development team using the tools available to them in the correct way.
The existing platform covers
- Continuous build / integration
- Automated deployment
- Code scanning tools (quality / security)
- Testing tools: unit testing, test automation, service virtualization, performance testing, test management
- Collaboration tools
- Release Management
- Workstation development tools
The main development platforms are
- Java / iOS / Android / JavaScript
Candidate needs to keep up-to-date on industry standards and evolutions and use this knowledge to propose evolutions and improvements.
Languages
- Very good knowledge of English
- French and/or Dutch is a plus
Requirements
- Strong experience in implementation of continuous build, integration and deployment systems
- Strong development profile with a proven coaching experience and good understanding of the SDLC
- Profound experience working in or with Agile development teams
Technical Experience
- Agile frameworks
- Impact mapping, story mapping, example mapping
- Software development models
- Administration, setup and maintenance of continuous build and integration platforms
- Java development and build
- Source code (SVN/GIT) and artefact repositories (Nexus)
- Scripting languages for automation
- Code scanning tools (Sonar / Fortify) is a plus
- Mobile development tools for Android and iOS platforms is a plus
- Containers (Docker / Kubernetes) is a plus
Soft skills
- Team player
- Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude
- Quick learner
- Good Communication and Influencing skills
- Good analytical and synthesis skills
- Autonomy, commitment and perseverance
- Ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment
- Flexible, accurate & control minded.
- Be able to work in a team, and with different groups in the organization, provide information and part of the solution, communication skills.
- Assertive and result-oriented
- Good networking skills
- Community oriented
- Teacher/mentor
- Curiosity
- Optimistic
