Senior Agile Coach

• Coach, mentor and teach squads, leaders and individuals
• Improve cross-functional collaboration between Product, Engineering, Data, Science and other disciplines
• Improve flow by reducing batch sizes, slicing work effectively and shortening lead times
• Support squads in becoming outcome-focused and self-organising
• Facilitate workshops, retrospectives and difficult conversations
• Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify improvement opportunities and assess changes
• Improve interactions between squads and other teams, reducing friction and organisational bottlenecks
• Develop training, tools and practical approaches for multiple teams
• Support formation of new squads and improve onboarding across Technology, Product and Data
• Work alongside squads and leaders to identify opportunities and make practical, sustainable changes
• Help teams become capable of improving without relying on the coach

Requirements

• Experience helping multiple cross-functional product, technology or data teams become more effective
• Experience working in high-performing product and engineering environments
• Broad understanding of modern product development, software engineering and delivery practices
• Experience improving flow, collaboration, quality, customer value or organisational capability
• Ability to coach and influence individual contributors through senior leaders
• Confidence moving between coaching, mentoring, teaching, facilitation and direct advice
• Experience using evidence and data to understand problems and measure improvements
• Strong judgement and pragmatism
• Comfortable operating in regulated, governed, constrained or traditional environments
• Real-world experience, a strong point of view and judgement to adapt approach to the situation
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps or continuous delivery can be useful
• Experience with scaled Agile frameworks is not required and advocacy for SAFe is not sought

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in coaching and mentoring cross-functional teams to enhance collaboration, improve flow, and drive organizational capability. Proficient in using qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify improvement opportunities and facilitate effective change.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Coaching And Mentoring
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Continuous Delivery

Hard Skills

• Product Development
• Software Engineering
• Delivery Practices
• Flow Improvement
• Organizational Capability

Soft Skills

• Facilitation
• Judgement
• Pragmatism
• Teaching
• Influencing

Industry Keywords

• High-Performing Environments
• Agile Frameworks
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Outcome-Focused Teams
• Self-Organizing Teams

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