Agile Delivery Coach

Pontoon; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading employment consultancy in the UK is seeking an Agile Delivery Coach for a 3-month contract. You will help teams enhance their efficiency and performance by using Agile practices. Candidate must have solid experience in agile coaching and a strong familiarity with tools like JIRA. This role also involves coaching leaders, improving lab performance, and ensuring effective data usage. The position requires on-site presence 2 days a week.

Benefits

Diversity initiatives

Health packages

Flexible recruitment process

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching or Scrum Mastery.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery metrics.
• Experience in coaching senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Improving Lab performance using data analysis.
• Driving data quality and use of JIRA.
• Coaching Lab leaders for performance improvement.

Skills

Agile Coaching

Scrum Mastery

Data analysis

JIRA

Confluence

Problem-solving

Education

Agile certifications (e.g., PSM I, PSM II)

Tools

JIRA Align

Job description

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Role: Agile Delivery Coach

Location: Halifax, 2 days per week on site required

Duration: 3-month contract

Rate: £550.00 per day via umbrella company

We're looking for a Agile Delivery Coach to join a forward-thinking organisation committed to delivering brilliant experiences for both customers and colleagues. You'll play a key role in helping teams work smarter, move faster and continuously improve the way value is delivered across the business.

This is an exciting opportunity to coach, influence and shape Agile practices across a large, modern technology and change landscape - working in a Lab structure where collaboration, data‑led decision making and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything.

About the Role

As a Business Agility Lead, you'll partner closely with Lab Leaders to boost effectiveness, efficiency and predictability across the teams you support. You'll be jointly responsible for Lab performance, ensuring strong data quality, optimised flow of work and mature Agile practices.

You’ll coach teams to adopt Agile mindsets, build capability and ultimately empower them to self‑improve over time. Using data, insights and your Agile expertise, you'll help drive faster speed to market, identify opportunities for improvement and guide teams back on track when performance dips.

You’ll support both new and established Agile teams - helping them apply the right practices, tools and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, scaled models etc.) depending on their maturity and the type of work.

Every day, you’ll be solving problems, facilitating improvements, coaching leaders and helping teams deliver value at pace.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Improving Lab performance and productivity using strong data analysis.
• Driving data quality and ensuring accurate, effective use of JIRA and JIRA Align.
• Using metrics and insight to diagnose issues and inform targeted interventions.
• Coaching and challenging Lab leaders to improve, accelerate and stabilise performance.
• Maturing Lab ways of working and supporting planning, sequencing and flow of work.
• Supporting and strengthening Lab cadence and Agile ceremonies.
• Providing hands‑on Agile expertise, guidance and coaching across teams.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching or Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications).
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery metrics and evidence‑based decision making.
• Experience coaching and influencing senior leaders in Agile ways of working.
• Confident using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence.
• Ability to analyse data, spot trends and drive performance improvements.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset with the ability to apply techniques like brainstorming, process flows and hypothesis setting.

Nice to Have

• Agile certifications such as PSM I, PSM II, PK1 or similar.

Why Join Us?

You'll be part of an organisation that genuinely values inclusion, innovation and continuous improvement. They're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can belong, grow and thrive - and they actively celebrate diversity in all its forms.

• setting ambitious diversity targets
• offering a menopause health package
• launching a dedicated Working With Cancer initiative

They’re also a Disability Confident employer, and reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please click the "apply" button.