Agile Coach

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Agile Coach to transform its digital platform capabilities. In this pivotal role, you will lead Agile teams, ensuring adherence to Scrum principles while fostering collaboration and high performance. Your expertise in Java, BDD testing, and AWS will be crucial as you facilitate stakeholder engagement and optimize team flow. This role promises a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact the organization's digital transformation journey. If you are passionate about Agile methodologies and thrive in a collaborative setting, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile events and ensure they are productive.
• Support iteration execution and maintain backlog refinement.
• Build high-performing teams and foster continuous improvement.

Skills

Facilitation Skills

Negotiation Skills

Agile Transformation Experience

Java

BDD Testing Concepts

Public Cloud (AWS)

IAM Technologies

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Education

Agile Practitioner Certification

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 banks 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 of working in an Agile transformation environment.
• An understanding of Java, BDD testing concepts and Public Cloud (AWS).

Some other highly desirable skills include:

• An understanding in authorisation and authentication technologies such as Policy as Code, IAM (Identity Access Management), IAM solutions (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS).
• Experience relationship building skills, patience, and resilience to change current thinking and working practices.
• Ability to translating technical concepts and solutions to both non-technical and technical teams without losing the detail.
• Accredited Agile practitioner.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and 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. To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results. Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that allevents take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox

• Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback

• Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible

• Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions

• Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise ‘in the moment leadership’, and drive high-performing team attributes

• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders

• Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable