Agile Coach

Full time, Permanent
Chester
Posted 3 years ago

Agile Coach (hybrid remote / HQ working model): To act as coach and mentor, responsible for guiding the team’s use of agile methodology and providing employees with feedback and means of improvement. A rewarding position for an experienced and technically motivated Agile Coach to take the reins within a passionate team and witness your input in an award-winning, successful department.

You will guide our Client’s cross-functional development teams in agile ways of working, implementing this methodology across their entire department, acting as the ‘go-to’.

Success in this role includes:

– Enabling development squads to be autonomous and business value driven while maintaining high levels of development standards
– Coach/Mentor individuals and teams in agile principles to ensure value is continuously delivered to production environments
– Be seen as an authority on existing/emerging agile trends and be able to confidently articulate the benefits to development teams

As Agile Coach, you will report directly to their Head of Development and will have the following key skills:

– Minimum 2 years’ experience as a scrum master, agile coach or similar
– Experience of allowing an intrinsically motivated culture to develop amongst development teams
– Able to enhance business understanding of agile values and principles
– Able to facilitate a scrum team using a servant leadership style
– Relentless approach to continuous improvement of both processes and individuals
– Results driven and open to learning opportunities
– Good knowledge of popular agile frameworks (Kanban/XP/Lean) and how best to utilise the values and tools
– Good communication skills both with technology and business-based individuals
– Strong collaborative problem solver

Hybrid Working: They support hybrid-working across the business with a mixture or remote and office working available and will be discussed at interview. The working hours for this position are 37.5 per week to be worked Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm.

Job Features

Job CategoryIT
Salary£45000
Job ReferenceARBSACc

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