Agile Coach for Traditional Design Practices / Testing

TEKsystems is a subsidiary of Allegis Group, the largest private talent management firm in the world. Our longstanding history and industry-leading position speak to our success in providing the IT staffing solutions, IT services and talent management insight required for you to actualize ROI and sustain a truly competitive advantage in a fast-changing market.

We are looking to hire a self-motivated & passionate Agile Technical Coach to work with application development teams and Technology Directors in providing coaching and training on the following: * Test driven development (Acceptance, unit, and legacy code) * Professional software development behavior (pair programming, Test Automation, Automated Functional Testing) * XP Practices and Behaviors - Offer training and customized hands-on demos and workshops on Pair/Mob programming, TDD, ATDD, collective code ownership * Legacy Code Refactoring - Coach teams to safely refactor code. * Agile Architecture Documentation workshops - Coach and teach how to retrospectively document the existing system and its architecture

**Qualifications:** * 8+ years of software development experience including, but not limited to, mature design, coding, testing and debugging skills * 6+ years of proven experience with designing and developing application using platforms such as Java EE or .NET platform * Profound insight of Modern OO development languages such as Java and JEE or .NET internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Transaction management, etc.) * Excellent knowledge of Relational and non-relational Databases * Experience in the Spring Framework * Experience with GIT/Stash, SVN and build tools Hudson/Jenkins * Experience in scripting * Hands-on experience practicing UTDD (unit test-driven development) and ATDD (acceptance test-driven development) behaviors, utilizing tools like Fitness or Cucumber, Selenium and jUnit * Expert understanding of object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns **Ability to:** * Think creatively and solving problems simply, not always through technology * Work with people of different skill sets in a cross-functional team, across locations * Be a self-starter, driven and able to take initiative and work with minimal supervision * Build real and lasting relationships with your team and extended partners * Share knowledge and learning from others **Knowledge of Agile Development:** * Using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean or a related agile discipline/practice * Focus on working with end users to deliver business value early * Iterative and incremental delivery * Automated unit, integration, and acceptance testing * Continuous integration and continuous build **Expected soft skills:** * A personal enthusiasm for technology and a drive to implement innovative and novel solutions to business problems * Self-motivation and tenacity to push new ideas and changes through * Good written and verbal communication skills in both technical and business domains * Experience in a management/lead capacity * Sharing knowledge and learning from others * Adapting to change and working through ambiguity * Strong facilitation and coaching skills