Agile Coach

Job Description

Title: Agile Coach

Duration: 12+ months Contract (Possibility of extension)

Client is searching for a highly effective Agile Coach with hands‑on experience coaching cross‑functional Agile teams in an Enterprise software environment. This role is all about coaching and enabling agile behaviours. Emphasising Agile values and principles is a key to unlocking our success. As an Agile Coach, you influence all levels of the organisation to drive increased agility. You nurture an environment where transparency, speed, quality and innovation are the focus.

You understand that the outcome of your success is seen through the behaviours of others, and provide the kind of coaching necessary to enable this. This role is key to enabling people to understand, learn and behave in an agile way to drive customer and business value while creating a healthy, agile team culture.

• Embrace servant‑leadership and coach teams on Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies
• Help teams create an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and speed
• Help teams assess the overall health of their Agile practices and culture to identify opportunities to improve and provide coaching to improve
• Help teams understand and implement effective metrics on things that impact value‑driven delivery
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of the organisation to empower and enable teams to execute
• Build, deliver and improve customised Agile training
• Work with non‑development teams to help drive agile transformation in those teams
• Partner with other Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters across the organisation
• Train and coach new Development teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Managers in Agile values, principles, practices and the Scrum framework and Kanban principles
• Be responsible for the growth of new and existing Scrum Masters
• Mentor and guide multiple teams on a day‑to‑day basis
• Help identify organisational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them
• Organise workshops that help promote Agile maturity across the organisation
• Communicate well with teams and leaders of the organisation, listen carefully, ask questions and give feedback
• Ensure Agile/Scrum/Kanban concepts, values and principles are adhered to, being a voice of reason and authority
• Maintain enthusiasm and a positive, high‑energy attitude
• Continuously grow your craft by learning new tools and techniques
• Handle conflict resolution well, facilitating discussion and alternatives of different approaches
• Coach teams and the organisation to achieve self‑organisation, team accountability
• Coach teams and the organisation on how to identify and burn down technical debt
• Coach teams and the organisation on how to bring disclosure and transparency to the business and grow business trust

• 5‑10+ years prior experience in an Agile Coach role helping teams efficiently deliver software
• Adaptive coaching style and the ability to work hands‑on with teams in an advisory role
• A proven track record with continuous value delivery in an Enterprise environment
• Demonstrate a strong knack for identifying waste and helping teams devise streamlined solutions
• Show that you are constantly learning and improving your skills and capabilities in Agile
• Possess a deep understanding of Agile with hands‑on experience in Scrum as well as other Agile methodologies – such as Kanban, Lean or eXtreme Programming
• Experience developing solutions for and adopting continuous delivery concepts and techniques
• A strong understanding of organisational dynamics in a large Enterprise environment
• Experience in code refactoring, simple design principles and continuous integration
• Experience in training, coaching and mentoring new Agile/Scrum teams
• Experience creating Agile training / workshop material
• Experience working with large, small, remote and collocated Scrum teams
• In‑depth understanding of Agile values, principles and the Scrum framework. Desired
• Prior experience as a software developer strongly preferred
• Experience working within a highly regulated environment strongly desired; preferably in the financial services industry

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.