Agile Lead - Federal Delivery Coach

Paxus - Technology + Digital Talent; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxus - Technology + Digital Talent is seeking an experienced Agile Lead to support a large Federal Government digital program. The role will coach multidisciplinary ICT teams, facilitate agile delivery activities and improve collaboration, delivery predictability and agile maturity across the program.

Role requires current NV1 clearance, SFIA PRMG Level 6, and a Canberra-based preference. This is a full-time contract until 30 June 2027 with possible six-month extensions, commencing 1 October

Qualifications

• At least five years supporting agile product delivery teams in complex ICT environments.
• At least five years leading or supporting multidisciplinary ICT delivery teams.
• Experience facilitating agile ceremonies and enabling high-performing, self-organising teams.
• Proven ability to coach delivery teams, leaders and stakeholders in agile principles and practices.
• Experience managing delivery impediments, risks and cross-team dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
• Experience developing and using agile delivery metrics to improve performance and delivery outcomes.
• Experience working within Australian Federal Government projects or programs.
• Ability to deliver outcomes within challenging and time-sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor agile teams in adopting and continuously improving agile practices and ways of working.
• Facilitate Program Increment Planning, iteration planning, reviews, retrospectives and team alignment sessions.
• Identify and help remove impediments affecting delivery.
• Support Product Owners, delivery teams and stakeholders with prioritisation, dependency management and delivery transparency.
• Develop meaningful delivery metrics and reporting covering team performance, flow, predictability and agile maturity.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives, action planning and outcome tracking.
• Foster collaboration and alignment across multiple teams, stakeholders and governance forums.
• Maintain effective communication between delivery teams, senior leadership, executives and business stakeholders.
• Support stakeholder engagement and business continuity throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to organisational agile capability uplift through mentoring, Communities of Practice and knowledge-sharing activities.

Skills

Agile coaching

Facilitation

Stakeholder engagement

Delivery metrics

SAFe knowledge

Education

Tertiary ICT/Business/PM qualification

SAFe certification (Practice/ASM/Release Train Engineer)

Agile coaching certification

Job description

Paxus - Technology + Digital Talent is seeking an experienced Agile Lead to support a large Federal Government digital program. The role will coach multidisciplinary ICT teams, facilitate agile delivery activities and improve collaboration, delivery predictability and agile maturity across the program.

Role requires current NV1 clearance, SFIA PRMG Level 6, and a Canberra-based preference. This is a full-time contract until 30 June 2027 with possible six-month extensions, commencing 1 October