Engineering Enablement Coach - AI-Driven Delivery

Parity Network; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Parity Network is recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation for an experienced Software Development Coach on a 12-month contract, hybrid in Edinburgh/Glasgow.

You will coach and support multiple product and enablement teams to improve delivery, embed secure, resilient engineering practices, and explore AI-assisted development while staying pragmatic, collaborative and focused on continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering and technical leadership within modern, cloud-based environments.
• Coaching and mentoring multiple Agile delivery teams with varying levels of maturity.
• Improving developer experience, engineering productivity and delivery quality through standards, tooling, automation and platform capabilities.
• Supporting the adoption of AI-assisted software development, including responsible use cases and measuring value.
• Identifying and reducing technical debt, security risks, resilience issues and knowledge concentration risks.
• Building communities of practice and facilitating workshops, learning and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Supporting technical modernisation and platform adoption.
• Communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coach multiple product and enablement teams to improve engineering capability, delivery effectiveness and technical decision-making.
• Identify technical, resilience and capability risks and support teams in delivering practical improvements.
• Drive the adoption of consistent engineering standards, secure development practices and effective ways of working.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, self-service capabilities and platform adoption.
• Support teams in adopting AI-assisted software development practices responsibly.
• Help engineers gain practical value from AI coding assistants for coding, code review, testing, troubleshooting and documentation.
• Facilitate workshops, hands-on coaching and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Build communities of practice that encourage collaboration, experimentation, learning and continuous improvement.
• Support the development of internal developer platforms, reusable engineering services and self-service tooling.
• Develop lightweight engineering dashboards and measures around quality, delivery, resilience and continuous improvement.
• Assess engineering practices to identify risks, capability gaps and modernisation opportunities.
• Contribute to technical governance, skills development, career pathways and workforce planning.
• Engage with suppliers, partners and external communities where this supports improved engineering outcomes.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Technical leadership

Coaching and mentoring

Agile delivery

AI adoption

Developer experience

Platform adoption

Communication

Tools

AWS

GitLab

APIs and containers

Job description

Parity Network is recruiting on behalf of a public sector organisation for an experienced Software Development Coach on a 12-month contract, hybrid in Edinburgh/Glasgow.

You will coach and support multiple product and enablement teams to improve delivery, embed secure, resilient engineering practices, and explore AI-assisted development while staying pragmatic, collaborative and focused on continuous improvement.