Agile Coach

Join us as an Agile Coach, Economic Crime Hub

• You'll be promoting and accelerating increased understanding, adoption and maturity of DevOps and Agile principles and methodologies across domains and centres of excellence
• We’ll look to you to assess the platform and feature teams’ current levels of maturity, along a standard DevOps maturity model
• This engaging role offers the prospect of significantly raising your professional profile as you advise and coach teams across the platform and within the centres of excellence
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a minimum of 2 days per week working from the office, with Monday and Thursday being a mandatory in-office day

What you'll do

We'll look to you to secure strong buy-in to Agile tools and methodologies from the Product Owner, Platform Lead and other key business stakeholders to drive commitment to an alternative way of working, driving increased proficiency and ultimately leading to improved customer outcomes through modern technology delivery practices.

In addition, you'll be:

• Coaching and mentoring teams to higher levels of Agile maturity, driving continuous improvements, and enhancing the end customer experience
• Supporting the setup of methodologies and tools within teams, such as sprint planning, in order to maximise delivery, team engagement and manage operational risk
• Supporting the development and establishment of appropriate metrics and reporting to allow the platform, and feature teams within it to monitor, identify and communicate progress to plan
• Supporting the definition of specific roles, responsibilities and deliverables within teams, equipping them with the latest Agile techniques and concepts to best serve their needs
• Ensuring ongoing training and models to communicate and reinforce Agile concepts, including ongoing assessment and identification of areas of improvement for teams

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with an in-depth understanding of multiple Agile frameworks and techniques. Experience coaching several Agile teams concurrently will be essential.

You’ll hold an active SAFe certification, with SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) preferred, and be a certified coach holding through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) or ICAgile Certified (ICC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or similar advanced Agile certification.

We'll also be looking for you to demonstrate:

• In-depth knowledge of Agile frameworks and techniques, including Scrum, Kanban and Lean, with a strong understanding of empirical process control and systems thinking
• Knowledge of modern development practices and Agile tools including Jira and Confluence
• Experience of changing organisational, team, department mind-sets, culture and structure
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to all levels

• Banking domain experience
• Proven experience delivering end to end SAFe Implementations within large enterprises

Hours

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