Agile Coach

Overview

Job Title:

Agile Coach

Location:

Knutsford UK

About the Job you are considering:
As an Agile Coach you will develop scrum principles and sprint goals aligned to industry best practices and the bank’s objectives to foster a high performing technology team and support the successful progression on scrum projects.

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home. You will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

• Management and fostering of a high performing engineering team by providing high quality technical guidance and support to resolve complex challenges aligned to the bank’s technology practices, industry best practice, and the bank’s business objectives.
• Identification and implementation of process improvement initiatives to enhance the technology development process in an efficient and effective manner.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and innovations, actively contributing to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and growth.
• Collaboration with business stakeholders, developers, and other technology teams to ensure technology initiatives align with business objectives, security policies, and regulatory requirements.

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies and procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions and changes.
• Lead several specialists to influence the operations of a department in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, balancing short- and long-term goals while ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others. For an individual contributor, the role may be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
• Lead collaborative multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured projects; identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
• Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists; provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation’s functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support to stay up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives; in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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