Sr. Agile Specialist

Department Description:

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

Team Description:

The Enterprise Technology Agile Specialist facilitates the adoption of the Disney aligned agile best practices across the delivery teams in the Enterprise Technology organization. This role drives

efficiencies in agile software delivery practices across multiple technology disciplines and non-technical agile teams. An agile specialist at Disney applies their practical, hands-on expertise in Scrum and Kanban to enable delivery teams to achieve their business outcomes through the utilization or adoption of agile business best practices and capabilities. Expertise in other agile disciplines is encouraged and experience the PMBOK framework is also encouraged.

What You’ll Do:

Educate Colleagues

The Agile Specialist will educate employees from one to three teams on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work. They leverage Disney aligned agile training materials and best practice standards to teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.

Mentor Team

As a mentor, the agile specialist is responsible for guiding one to three teams in developing maturity in the adoption of their self-selected agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions. They provide hands-on support all members of the team and the team’s directly stakeholders, collaborating with people across widely across cross functional development organizations, facilitating further understanding of their teams' Agile practices to ensure successful outcomes of their delivery through the team’s agile best practices.

Develop Agile Adoption Strategy

The Agile Specialist will partner with the Agile Practice Lead to drive the adoption over the organization agile strategy, providing inputs to ensure that the strategy supports the broader organizational constraints and needs of the teams while meeting the overall organizational Agile adoption objectives. The agile specialist will collaborate with their teams to continuously improve their Scrum or Kanban processes to achieve their identified team and organizational goals. They will work in partnership with the agile coach or the Agile practice lead through every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to enabling a culture of collaboration that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually contributing to the development of strategies for continuous improvement.

Implement Agile Methodology

The Agile Specialist will be responsible for implementing Agile process, principles, and practices across for all teams that support collaborating across peer teams within Enterprise Technology. The agile specialist will collaborate with an agile coach or the Agile Practice Lead to implement Scrum or Kanban that is most relevant to the work of the team. The Agile Specialist will leverage techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency while promoting a culture of experimentation and innovation.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years’ work experience with relevant technologies, facilitating agile practices with one or more agile teams

• Minimum 2 years facilitating scrum processes and events

• Strong experience facilitating the adoption and application of Kanban

• Demonstrating strong knowledge of and background with Agile concepts

• Effective verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast paced environment

• Strong people skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Attention to detail

• Enthusiastic about software quality and agile practices

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in formal and informal settings

• Possesses skills and motivation to thrive in a highly collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• One or more Agile certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM); Certified Scrum Product Owner (SCPO); Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP); Professional Scrum Master (PSM); SAFe Agilist Certification (SA)

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $129,300 - $165,300 per year and in Seattle is $135,400 - $175,600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.