Role:                   Global Agile Coach

Rate/Salary:     Euro 100K-110K/Year + Benefits

Location:            Essen, Germany

Job type:            Permanent

Language:         German language is compulsory

Detailed JD *(Roles and Responsibilities)

Do you have strong interpersonal skills? Are you comfortable communicating with people at all levels within an organization, including leadership and executives? Are you driven guiding an organization’s Agile growth and maturity? Are you motivated by helping teams and individuals strive toward success through continuous improvement? If this matches your interests and abilities, we have a place for you.

What You Can Expect

As an Agile Coach, you’ll join our team of passionate individuals who are highly competent at adapting to our clients needs. You will display agility in the truest sense, by being flexible and adaptable. You’ll encourage effective teamwork at all levels while learning the landscape of the business and helping identify areas where improvement is needed and offering guidance toward continuous improvement. You will work closely with decision makers and teams to grow and mature in their Agile practices.

You will use your strong interpersonal skills to coach across departments and geographies, and will leverage your Agile experience and knowledge.  You are business-focused and tech-savvy, and will be considered a thought leader by both the client’s business and technical teams. As an Agile Coach, you are a subject matter expert in theory and practice.  You have an in-depth understanding of the practices and principles of Scrum and real-world experience with organizations and teams either transforming to Agile or enhancing their Agile practices.

Our Must Have List

• Exceptional English language communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Willingness to participate in frequent worldwide teleconferences outside of daytime hours
• BS in Business, Information Systems, Informatics or related field, or comparable experience
• Consulting and software development lifecycle experience
• Strong technical skills, business acumen, and ability to fully understand the capabilities, organization structure, and maturity of a customer
• Be able to effectively communicate with clients and internal teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
• Logical thinker, detail-oriented and organized
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Agile Certification (PSM I or II, PSPO I, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, Less Certification, SPC, SA)
• Experience coaching teams and enterprise level individuals in an Agile environment
• A thorough understanding of Agile Software Development methodologies, values, and procedures, including methodologies for scaling agile (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Nexus, Scrum@Scale)
• Experience working with an Agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects
• Worked with JIRA, Azure DevOps, TFS, Agile Central, VersionOne, Smart Sheet, AgileCraft or similar software

Nice to have skills

• Agile Coach Certification (ICP-ACC, CEC or similar)
• People Management experience

Target Experience Levels:

• Agile Coach: 3 – 5 years of experience as an Agile Coach in an IT or Software Development setting with demonstrated experience mentoring and providing guidance to team members
• Significant hands-on experience in at least one of the roles on a Scrum Team
• 2+ clients or projects with an International / Global company, multi-division, across multiple time zones, coordinated through geographically dispersed teams.

Typical Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively teams and organizations in leadership coaching, organizational transformation, and Agile Practices at the enterprise and team level
• Leverage your experience in Scrum and SAFe or other scaling methodologies at multiple levels of engagement and at the leadership level
• Work as a hands-on organizational change agent across multiple teams and organizational boundaries
• Apply a solid working knowledge of Agile and Lean values, principles, and practices
• Help individuals, teams, and leadership to understand and apply Agile and Lean values, principles, and practices effectively.
• Understand the difference between coaching and consulting and where to apply each
• Understand the dynamics, patterns, and development of teams

If you’re interested in this role, forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to cv@ibuconsulting.com or apply online

Role:                    Office 365 Architect

Rate/Salary:     Euro 100K-110K/Year + Benefits

Location:            Essen, Germany

Job type:            Permanent

Language:         German language is compulsory

Detailed JD *(Roles and Responsibilities)

PRIMARY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, architect, and review solutions built on Office 365, SharePoint Online, Teams, PowerApps, Flow, and more
• Migrate Office 365 workloads including SharePoint and Exchange
• Establish governance teams and documentation for Microsoft 365
• Establish baseline security policies in Microsoft 365
• Creation of technical design documentation
• Define best practices and processes while working with cross functional teams to ensure their adoption
• Lead a team of dynamic, energetic engineers
• Provide team mentoring, architecture, testing, and on-time delivery of high-quality work

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 7 to 10 years of SharePoint administration experience with 2+ years of experience administering SharePoint Online
• Strong experience in Office 365 identity and Azure Active Directory Connect
• Strong experience in migrating Office 365 workloads including SharePoint and Exchange
• Strong experience in Team Collaboration, Content management (ECM), Web portals, Enterprise search, and User management
• Strong experience in integrating SharePoint with third party enterprise tools
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum methodology
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a geographically disperse working environment
• Ability to adapt to time critical deadlines and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment Professional commitment, detail oriented, high focus on quality, passion for learning new skills

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Office 365 Infrastructure
• Office 365 Migration
• Office 365 / Microsoft 365 Administration
• EM+S / Intune Configuration
• PowerApps and Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)

If you’re interested in this role, forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to cv@ibuconsulting.com or apply online

Role:                    Dynamics 365 Solution Architect

Rate/Salary :     Euro 100K-110K/Year + Benefits

Location:            Essen, Germany

Job type:            Permanent

Language:          German language is compulsory

Detailed JD *(Roles and Responsibilities)

• Clearly and logically able to architect well-structured solutions/framework from start to finish to solve business problems with confidence.
• Can lead customer-facing conversations with the ability to whiteboard and/or demonstrate solutions to business problems on the fly
• Ability to work with customer architects to successfully recommend a solution to integrating Dynamics with other platforms/applications
• Ability to lead a team in best-practices surrounding recent versions of Dynamics 365/CRM
• Able to think holistically about project goals to design a working Dynamics 365 custom code solution
• Proficient understanding of the Dynamics 365/CRM platform and all that it offers
• Able to configure and develop complex coded solutions within Dynamics
• Work to continually adapt and set development standards for all Dynamics engagements
• Assist in presales efforts
• Assist in the interview process
• Lead teams of developers, and/or develops solutions for an engagement

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 5-8 years development experience with Microsoft development tools
• 3+ years architecting (technical) Dynamics 365/CRM Solutions
• Keep up-to-date on all Microsoft Dynamics 365 offerings
• Firm grasp and experience with development on the Dynamics platform, including:
  • JavaScript and/or Typescript
  • C#
  • API Consumption
  • Some SQL knowledge
  • Some Markup knowledge
  • Some Azure knowledge
• Experience in massive cloud migrations
• Experience in Agile SAFE and/or Scrum Projects
• Perform Dynamics 365 Online setup through Office 365
• Can setup automated testing and CI
• Experience with multiple Client/Server frameworks
• Understands and can use multiple design patterns.
• Fully grasps callbacks, promises, and Async.
• Can setup CRM Visual Studio Solution from scratch.
• Can setup Custom Web Resources to interact with the form and load custom JS libraries.
• Has a firm belief in either early bound or late bound C# development, and can argue as to why
• Understands the CRM Plugin Pipeline, the Prevalidation/PreOperation/PostOperation stages what a Target will have in each stage, and what happens post stage if you update the target.
• Understands Plugin Filters and images
• Can manage and maintain the entire CRM ALM, correctly using a Dev, Qa, Stage, and Prod environment.

• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Apply Microsoft development techniques effectively following development best practices
  • Plan and carry out unit testing
• Familiar and experienced in:
  • Core Microsoft Dynamics Platform and it’s components
  • Implementation Methodology
  • Web Services
  • Microsoft .NET technology, Microsoft Visual Studio development system, and Microsoft Dynamics specific development environments
  • Network and operating systems
  • Understanding of key independent software vendors (ISV’s within the industry
• Successful completion of applicable product certification exams

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to work independently, prioritize and solve problems proactively
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Taking ownership of project and team success
• Team player with strong communication skills and customer focus
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Clear and effective communications

DESIRED SKILLS

• On-Premises installation experience
• ADFS configuration
• Understanding and capability to setup and work with a 3^rd Party ETL Tool (Extract-Transform-Load) such as Scribe, CozyRoc, KingswaySoft or similar tool.

If you’re interested in this role, forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to cv@ibuconsulting.com or apply online