Agile Coach

AXA UK plc; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational insurance firm is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to drive agile adoption and cultural change. The role involves coaching teams, facilitating agile workshops, and enabling agility at scale across the organization. Candidates should have proven experience in Agile delivery, excellent facilitation skills, and relevant agile certifications. The position offers a competitive salary, performance bonuses, and flexible working arrangements with at least two days a week in-office. Join a dynamic environment committed to organizational agility.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme (up to 12%)

Life Assurance (up to 10 × salary)

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy/sell extra days leave

Wellbeing services & resources

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience coaching teams in Agile delivery within complex environments.
• Deep understanding of frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, and Lean.
• Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Coach product teams and leadership to adopt agile mindsets.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and workshops to enhance performance.
• Identify and resolve delivery blockers with leadership.

Skills

Agile delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Change management

Technical concepts (CI/CD, testing, architecture)

Education

Agile certifications (e.g., ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, CSP)

Job description

We're seeking an experienced Agile Coach to play a pivotal role in driving agile adoption and cultural change across AXA UK. This is a unique opportunity to shape how we deliver value, empower teams and embed agile practices at scale. You'll work closely with leadership, product teams and stakeholders to foster an agile mindset and support our ambitious transformation goals. This role offers a chance to lead significant organisational change, contribute to a major agile transformation and support the development of a new product operating model. If you thrive in dynamic environments and are passionate about enabling organisational agility, we want to hear from you. At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

• Coach product tribes, leadership and stakeholders to adopt and embed agile mindsets, values and practices.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, workshops and maturity assessments to enhance tribe performance.
• Act as a change agent, enabling agility at scale through targeted interventions and coaching plans.
• Partner with Tribe Leads, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to support backlog management, prioritisation and cross‑team collaboration.
• Identify systemic impediments and work with leadership to resolve delivery blockers.
• Develop and deliver tailored training sessions based on agile maturity and business needs.
• Track agile adoption progress and provide feedback to governance and transformation forums.
• Contribute to the Agile Community of Practice by sharing insights, metrics and tooling improvements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience coaching teams and leaders in Agile delivery within complex, regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP and Lean, with practical tailoring experience.
• Excellent facilitation, mentoring and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Understanding of change management capabilities, with the ability to navigate resistance and ambiguity.
• Comfortable working with engineering teams and conversant in technical concepts like CI/CD, testing, and architecture.
• Experience engaging with senior leadership, including ex‑co level conversations.
• Agile certifications (e.g., ICP‑ACC, ICP‑ENT, CSP) are preferred.
• Ability to work across large groups (150+ people) and adapt to various business areas and organisational contexts.

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA's three customer‑facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us.

What we offer:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance‑based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 × annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.