Agile Coach

neoleap; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

neoleap seeks an experienced Agile Coach to drive maturity across technology teams by coaching squads, tech leads and product owners, strengthening delivery cadence and collaboration.

You will onboard new squads, establish flow metrics, and ensure governance, risk controls and audit traceability are maintained while guiding transformation initiatives across departments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years in technology delivery, including 3+ coaching teams at scale.
• Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience is a plus.
• PSM II, ICP-ACC, or SAFe SPC certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coach squads on Agile principles, frameworks, and behaviors across multiple business lines.
• Coach Tech Leads to facilitate ceremonies and own delivery cadence.
• Build Product Owner capability and effective backlog management.
• Coach Kanban teams on flow, WIP limits, and service-level expectations.
• Assess Agile maturity and drive improvements in team effectiveness and delivery performance.
• Onboard new squads to a standard operating model and reduce time-to-productivity.
• Ensure Agile practices satisfy change governance, audit traceability, and regulatory risk controls.
• Establish and monitor DORA and flow metrics in Jira and GitLab.
• Identify and remove organizational and process impediments to delivery.
• Facilitate workshops, retrospectives, and transformation initiatives.
• Support alignment across squads, business lines, and technology initiatives.
• Partner with Chapter Leads on capability development, influencing without direct authority.
• Promote collaboration, transparency, and sustainable delivery.
• Participate in recruitment of key talents for their Department.
• Manage and guide direct reports to perform their operations per policy.
• Set performance objectives and provide regular feedback.

Skills

Agile coaching

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

To drive Agile maturity and continuous improvement across technology teams by coaching teams and stakeholders on Agile principles, practices, and ways of working to improve delivery effectiveness, collaboration, and organizational agility.

Key Activities:

• Coach squads on Agile principles, frameworks, and behaviors across multiple business lines.
• Coach Tech Leads to facilitate ceremonies and own delivery cadence.
• Build Product Owner capability and effective backlog management.
• Coach Kanban teams on flow, WIP limits, and service-level expectations.
• Assess Agile maturity and drive improvements in team effectiveness and delivery performance.
• Onboard new squads to a standard operating model and reduce time-to-productivity.
• Ensure Agile practices satisfy change governance, audit traceability, and regulatory risk controls.
• Establish and monitor DORA and flow metrics in Jira and GitLab.
• Identify and remove organizational and process impediments to delivery.
• Facilitate workshops, retrospectives, and transformation initiatives.
• Support alignment across squads, business lines, and technology initiatives.
• Partner with Chapter Leads on capability development, influencing without direct authority.
• Promote collaboration, transparency, and sustainable delivery.
• Participate in the identification and recruitment of key talents for their respective Department
• Manage, guide and assist direct reports to perform their functional operations in accordance with set policies and procedures
• Set performance objectives, provide necessary support, evaluate/appraise the team and provide regular feedback on performance
• Uphold a high-performance working environment and promote the Organization’s Values

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree preferred.
• 8+ years in technology delivery, including 3+ coaching teams at scale.
• Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.
• PSM II, ICP-ACC, or SAFe SPC certification (good to have).