Agile Coach

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in agile delivery, agile coaching, scrum mastering or deliveryleadership, including significant experience coaching multiple teams in enterprise orregulated environments.
• Deep, practical mastery of agile frameworks and methods, including Scrum, Kanbanand scaled approaches such as SAFe, LeSS or Scrum@Scale, with the judgement toadapt rather than apply them dogmatically.
• Strong experience coaching product owners and product teams on backlogmanagement, outcome-based prioritisation, roadmap shaping and value delivery.
• Ability to coach at individual, team and organisational levels, meeting people wherethey are and tailoring interventions to context, maturity and constraints.
• Strong facilitation skills across planning, retrospectives, workshops, conflict resolutionand cross-team coordination.
• Experience establishing and interpreting delivery metrics (flow, cycle time,predictability, quality, team health) to drive continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, automation,DevOps culture, engineering excellence and product operating models.
• Strong understanding of governance, compliance and delivery assurance in regulatedsettings, and the ability to reconcile agility with accountability and auditability.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with theability to coach and challenge senior leaders, technical teams and non-technicalstakeholders.
• Comfortable working in an ambiguous, evolving, product-oriented environment whereways of working are improved incrementally through feedback.

Preferred Skills

• Experience operating in Government Commercial Cloud, public sector or regulatedenterprise environments.
• Recognised agile certifications such as CSP, PSM II/III, ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, SAFeSPC or equivalent coaching credentials.
• Experience coaching squads that blend permanent staff and augmented resourcesacross onshore and offshore delivery models.
• Exposure to platform engineering, developer experience, internal platforms andgolden-path adoption from a delivery-enablement perspective.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jira, Azure Boards or equivalent tooling forbacklog, flow and delivery visualisation.
• Experience designing agile transformation roadmaps, capability-building programmes,communities of practice and coaching operating models.
• Understanding of AI-enabled product delivery and how agile practices adapt to data,ML and AI product development.