Summary

The Red Hat Open Innovation Labs (Labs) team is looking for an Agile Development Coach to join us in Tokyo, Japan. In this role, you will use a variety of modern application development practices, along with emerging technologies from open source communities, working together with consulting engineers and customers in small teams to build, test, and iterate over innovative application prototypes attached to real business value. As an Agile Development Coach, you will accompany the development team, supporting the introduction and proficiency of practices that improve the efficiency and quality of development and help resolve technical issues in the implementation.

Responsibility

• Establish collaborative partnerships with cross-functional teams and the organization to help them in their journey of adopting agile development practice and methodology

• Serve as a development coach for distributed teams as needed, with a focus on coaching the team on development practices and technical problem solving, and encouraging them to continuously improve

• Support and educate the development team, especially with introducing agile engineering practices, such as development practices of XP(Extreme Programing) or cloud-native application development

• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Contribute to solution roadmap planning, project scheduling, and release management

• Introduce new ideas, architectures, and processes which will improve performance and productivity

• Facilitate cross-team coordination through reaching out to the larger organization for impediment removal

• Keep informed and educated about industry trends concerning development efficiency, software quality, and agile development process

• Collaborate with the broader regional and global Red Hat teams to deploy our agile and DevOps capabilities

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree of Information Technology or combination of relevant education and experience

• 8+ years of experience working with enterprise customers on a range of development and deployment projects

• Solid knowledge of web service and microservices architectures

• Experience architecting, designing, developing, and managing mission-critical applications

• Experience implementing or executing development practices such as Test Automation, TDD(Test-Driven Development), Pair/Mob Programming, CI/CD(Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Code Refactoring, Clean Code, Software Configuration Management, etc.

• Fundamental knowledge of agile development and Scrum

• Excellent facilitation skills with demonstrated ability to influence change at all levels

• Solid communication and interpersonal skills

• Comfortable operating in rapidly changing environments

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience of Agile, Lean, and Scrum

• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) or equivalent certifications

• Experience using container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift

• Knowledge of enterprise portal technologies and concepts, data integration technologies and concepts like Red Hat Fuse, Data Grid and caching technologies and concepts, and asynchronous communication technologies and concepts like Kafka and messaging

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

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