Agile Coach

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Agile Coach to transform their digital platform. This role involves developing scrum principles, fostering high-performing teams, and ensuring smooth communication across stakeholders. You will leverage your expertise in Java, BDD testing, and AWS to drive Agile transformation and enhance customer value. Join a dynamic environment where your facilitation and negotiation skills will help shape the future of digital offerings, ensuring that customer experience is at the heart of all initiatives. If you are passionate about Agile methodologies and want to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in facilitating Agile teams and Scrum principles.
• Strong understanding of Java and AWS cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum events and support Agile teams in delivering high-quality results.
• Identify and mitigate risks while fostering high-performing teams.

Skills

Facilitation Skills

Negotiation Skills

Agile Transformation Experience

Java

BDD Testing Concepts

Public Cloud (AWS)

IAM Solutions

Relationship Building

Technical Translation Skills

Accredited Agile Practitioner

Job description

Join us as an Agile Coach

You will be bringing to life a new Digital Platform capability by transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. You will be developing scrum principles and sprint goals aligned to industry best practices, and the bank's objectives, to foster a high-performing technology team and support the successful progression on scrum projects. You will be maintaining day-to-day work with the lines of business and bring to life their needs through solutions and realising these through rapid prototyping and proof of concepts using Java, BDD testing concepts, and Public Cloud (AWS).

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Excellent facilitation and negotiation skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience working in an Agile transformation environment.
• An understanding of Java, BDD testing concepts, and Public Cloud (AWS).

Some other highly desirable skills include:

• Understanding of authorization and authentication technologies such as Policy as Code, IAM (Identity Access Management), and IAM solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS).
• Relationship building skills, patience, and resilience to change current thinking and working practices.
• Ability to translate technical concepts and solutions to both non-technical and technical teams without losing detail.
• Accredited Agile practitioner.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of our London office.

Purpose of the role

Facilitates and supports Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles. Removes obstacles, enhances team collaboration, and ensures smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results. Facilitates Scrum events, promotes continuous improvement, and acts as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, ensuring they are positive, productive, and within the timebox.
• Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artifacts and continuous customer value through iteration, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate based on stakeholder feedback.
• Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate removal of conflicts impacting team flow, using metrics to empower effective communication and visibility of all work.
• Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks, remove impediments, and shield the squad from interruptions.
• Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile attributes, encourage stakeholder collaboration, provide 'in the moment leadership', and promote high performance.
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate collaboration with stakeholders such as business teams and vendors, and build trust.
• Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and represent the team at governance forums, if applicable.