Agile Coach

The Agile Coach will guide CERN's Business Computing group through finance, procurement, logistics and human-capital-management transformation projects. The role trains teams and partners in lean-agile practice, facilitates workshops, improves collaboration and information flow, and builds agile maturity, accountability and continuous improvement across product teams, managers and stakeholders.

• Coordinate business-transformation projects
• Train individuals and teams in agile techniques and frameworks
• Design a strategy to improve collaboration and information flow between software teams and business stakeholders
• Coach and facilitate lean-agile workshops for product teams, business representatives and stakeholders
• Increase knowledge of lean-agile practices with the Lean-Agile Chapter
• Promote an agile mindset, high-performing team dynamics, accountability and continuous improvement

• Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation, or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation
• Nationality of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State
• Applicants must not previously have held a CERN fellow or graduate contract
• Experience working with Scrum teams in a scaled agile context
• Experience with product-management frameworks and business-transformation projects
• Spoken and written English with a commitment to learn French

• Studies in computer science or organisational psychology
• Agile certification such as Scrum Master or Leading SAFe
• Design-thinking skills

• Agile Coaching
• Lean-Agile Practices
• Scrum
• Product Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Business Transformation
• Lean Portfolio Management
• Design Thinking

• Scrum Master
• SAFe

• Ideal start date: 1 January 2027
• Hybrid work arrangement
• Interviews will take place in the last week of September
• Application requires a CV in English or French
• Contract may be extended up to 36 months