Kanban Agile Coach - Part-Time - Contract

Digiterre Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Digiterre Ltd is seeking a highly skilled Kanban Agile Coach to enhance team effectiveness and efficiency through Agile practices. This role involves coaching teams, facilitating workshops, and driving continuous improvement in a collaborative environment. Join a leading consultancy recognized for delivering high-value technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Agile Coach with a focus on Kanban.
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum and Lean.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the adoption of Kanban practices across teams.
• Conduct training sessions on Agile principles and Kanban methodology.
• Coach teams to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.

Skills

Coaching

Facilitation

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Lean Kanban University Certification

Certified Agile Coach

Job description

The role:

Digiterre is seeking a highly skilled Kanban Agile Coach to join our team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in Kanban methodology to coach one of our client teams in implementing Agile practices, driving continuous improvement, and fostering a culture of collaboration. You will work closely with various stakeholders to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of our teams, ensuring successful project deliveries and higher customer satisfaction.

As a Kanban Agile Coach, your primary responsibility will be to guide teams in adopting and adapting Kanban to their unique contexts, while aligning with our organizational goals and values. This position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role in transforming delivery processes and promoting Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the adoption of Kanban practices across teams, including the establishment of visual management boards, workflow metrics, and continuous feedback loops.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops to educate teams on Agile principles, practices, and the Kanban methodology.
• Collaborate with leadership to define metrics and KPIs, measure team performance, and drive improvements based on data-driven insights.
• Coach teams to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in their workflows, improving cycle times and team productivity.
• Work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and delivery expectations.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• Proven experience as an Agile Coach or in a similar role, with a specific focus on Kanban methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks and practices, including Scrum and Lean principles.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills, enabling you to work effectively with diverse teams at all levels.
• Experience in leading workshops and training sessions to upskill team members in Agile practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to drive change in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative mindset.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Lean Kanban University, Certified Agile Coach) are a plus.

Desirable Traits:

• A passion for continuous improvement and a commitment to fostering a culture of learning.
• Ability to motivate and inspire teams to embrace Agile methodologies and improve their delivery processes.

About Digiterre

Digiterre is an award-winning software and data engineering consultancy. For the past 23 years we have helped leading organisations change and transform their businesses by building and delivering high-value bespoke technology. Widely recognised for our work with clients in the financial services and energy and commodities sectors, we solve some of the most complex and important industry problems. Our latest award recognised us as the “Leading Strategic/Technology Advisory Group of the Year 2023” at Commodity Trading Week.

Taking ownership of problems is in our DNA, which means we can deliver high-risk, high-profile, and time-constrained projects in less time than competitors, often significantly so.

We live and breathe our values of Care, Quality, and Leadership, and believe in a working culture that is highly collaborative, consultative, and respectful.

This is a contract position.

Our Values:

Our values are Care, Quality and Leadership.

Like all great professional services organisations, our aim is to delight our clients through the delivery of excellence and adherence to the highest levels of accountability in all that we do. In short, through keeping our promises and by over-delivering against our commitments wherever possible. Underpinning those aims is an all-encompassing passion for technology and data-led transformation. We are driven to demonstrate the point that brilliant software and data engineering, which meets the precise requirements of business users is, not only possible, but is the standard against which all initiatives should be measured; without compromise.

We aim to add business value far in excess of the cost of delivery, project after project. We are constantly seeking to hire additional team members who, like us, celebrate continuous learning and who want to work in a high-respect environment to contribute significantly to delivering the change that our clients have come to expect of Digiterre.