Agile Coach 1

BCLC exists to generate win-wins for the greater good.
 

For our people, our players, our communities, our industry, and our planet.
 

Lottery | Casino | Sports
 

Being a social purpose company, we are not only able to better align our business decisions with our purpose, but more importantly, we are committing to doing our part in creating a better world.

We bring our purpose to life by ensuring all our actions, behaviours and decisions create benefits for communities and the planet.

Motivated and guided by our social purpose, everything we do must benefit the greater good. And we encourage our employees, partners, players, industry and communities to engage with us on this ambition.

  We want you to be where you feel you can do your best work. Most of our jobs can be done remotely providing you reside in BC.
 

  For those who prefer working in a community with others, we have two beautiful offices in convenient locations: 
 

                2940 Virtual Way, Vancouver | 74 Seymour Street W, Kamloops
 

  This is a Permanent, Full Time opportunity

  Expected Salary Range: $84,981.00 - $106,227.00 - $132,784.00 
 

                Our typical hiring range will be +/- 5% of the midpoint shown above
 

                 Factors influencing this decision include qualifications and market conditions for the role

The Company
 

For nearly four decades, BCLC has delivered exceptional gambling entertainment for British Columbians. To fulfill our social purpose we have a vision to revolutionize gambling entertainment through engaging experiences that build and benefit communities. We operate national and provincial lotteries in partnership with 3500 retail partners, provide the games, technology & oversight to 37 brick & mortar casinos, and operate a safe secure and 100% legal online gambling presence PlayNow.com. In our recently completed fiscal year, BCLC generated a record $1.5 billion in net income to the Province of B.C. to support First Nations, host local governments, health care, education and community programs across the province.

The Team

Joining the Business Technology team at BCLC means you’ll be working with cutting-edge technology to help build a world-class entertainment company. This is an innovative, capable group of talented individuals working in Digital Development, Delivery Services, Data Enablement & Automation, Technology Platform Enablement, Technology Operations Enablement, Enterprise Services, and Cyber Security. This enables us to execute the purchase and validation of lottery tickets at over 3500 lottery retailers, manage a complex network of 12,000 slot machines and electronic table games across the province and provide the backbone for BCLC’s iGaming platform, and much more.

The Agile Coach 1 role is part our Enterprise Services group within the Business Technology division.  Within the Enterprise Services area we drive innovation, collaboration and delivery for BCLC.  We excel in Project Management and Agile Practices, optimizing delivery across the entire organization. We empower employees with cutting-edge collaboration technologies and tools fostering a connected and productive workplace.

The Role

As an Agile Coach 1 you will be responsible for supporting delivery teams in adopting best practices & frameworks to enhance their productivity, team behaviours & collaboration, and optimizing their delivery overall.  Equally important, the Agile Coach 1 will contribute to and support our Agile Practice in evolving our team health and delivery metrics & KPIs holistically to ensure we have the right measures in place to inform & enhance our delivery across BCLC.    

What you will accomplish

• One-to-One coaching across diverse teams on delivery best practices from frameworks such as Scrum & Kanban
• Improving our Agile Practice processes through customer & peer collaboration
• Forming and onboarding new delivery teams across BCLC with a focus on healthy team dynamics and leveraging best practiced frameworks tailored to optimizing their delivery.
• Evolve Agile Practice guardrails & standards to promote consistency and predictability across all our delivery teams.
• Utilizing delivery team metrics to promote & improve overall velocity & efficiency across teams

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science. 
• Minimum of 4 to 6 years of relevant experience, with 3 years experience as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or similar role with a strong understanding of agile principles, frameworks, and practices;
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.
• A combination of education and/or experience may be considered

What will make you successful

• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks & methodologies (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe);
• Strong understanding of Portfolio & Project Management methodologies;
• Ability to use common Agile workflow management tools and practices (such as Kanban, Scrum, Lean);
• Strong knowledge and use of Atlassian Suite: Jira, Confluence;
• Adaptable with demonstrated understanding that success is measured by the growth and success of an Agile delivery team; 
• Strong process engineering skills with ability to apply them to new Agile delivery team(s) and to implement continual improvement as a result of learning and feedback (technology, people, process); 
• Strong coaching, mentoring, facilitation & communication skills

It would be awesome if you also had

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM1 at minimum) certification 
• Agile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching;
• Experience with agile, portfolio and/or project management software systems 
• Experience with Power BI 
• Experience working directly with business partners in a leadership role 
• Understanding of B.C. gaming industry 

What’s in it for you

• Defined benefit pension plan which provides a recurring income you can depend on for life throughout retirement
• We pride ourselves on our flexible working model which supports work-life integration and our 37.5 hour work week
• Professional development including education/certification sponsorship, in house leadership cohorts, LinkedIn Learning
• See all our rewards here
   

However you identify, or whatever your path in life, if you see something here that makes you excited to get to work every day, please apply. We hire people for skills, capabilities and potential, not just education and experience.

We value Respect, Integrity and Community, and we provide an inclusive environment where everyone can feel like they belong.

Our social purpose is much more than returning 100% of net income to the province in the form of healthcare & education programs, and community gaming grants. Check it out!

Did you know BCLC is an industry leader in player health and safe & responsible gambling? Find out more!

If you require accommodation so you can be at your best in the interview, please let us know: recruitment@bclc.com.

All candidates must be at least 19 years of age and legally eligible to work in Canada