Agile Coach

The Agile Coach will act as a skilled ambassador for enterprise agility, be a promotor of agile (Lean & SaFE) Frameworks & methodologies and champion core agile principles in the organization.  They will be responsible for continuing to embed enterprise agility, improve agile culture and practices in the product leadership and delivery teams.  They will demonstrate servant leadership to the CoE coaching community to help drive further agile adoption across the organisation.

The Agile Coach will play an important role in supporting the delivery of the Portfolio, focusing on maximising the delivery of significant business value and key results.  Being hands-on, engaging with teams at a tactical and strategic level.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Ensure relevant training is developed and delivered by the Agile CoE to product management and delivery teams such as Delivery Lead training, Product Management training, PI training, Scaled Agile training, OKR training etc.
• Strengthen the enterprise understanding of Product Management to increase the delivery of value, through a better understanding and traceability of OKR’s  
• Look for ways to strengthen enterprise understanding of Portfolio Management to increase the delivery of value through a better understanding and traceability of OKR’s and KPI’s
• Build and coach multiple high performing agile squads. 
• Agile coaching – Teach, mentor and improve agile (and change related practices) across the organization.
• Support and collaborate with the other agile coaches within the agile CoE
• Responsible for building  a community champions to drive Agile adoption across the organisation
• Conduct regular agile maturity assessments and pulse checks.  Provide insight and recommendations for improvement 
• Ensure the Enterprise is equipped to make strategic pivots
• Drive appropriate consistency of practise across the enterprise
• Ensure Lean Portfolio management is used where possible and understand by Product management and delivery squads  
• Champion agile culture and practice acting as change agent for enterprise agility
• Advise on good practice (Project & Agile delivery) and scaling patterns
• Support the refinement of the Strategic Investment Portfolio and the ad-hoc demand process.
• Responsible for facilitating PI events across the teams
• Responsible for ensuring robust OKR’s are documented and traceable across Product Management and delivery squads

Knowledge and Experience Required

Leadership Experience

• Involvement in agile transformation at scale in enterprise organizations
• Experience in executing a strategy to drive Enterprise agility
• Demonstrated experience coaching organizations on agile best practices, expert in topics involving agile and experienced working at the leadership (portfolio) level
• Experience in Value Management and Prioritisation.

Behavioural Competencies

• Passionate about understanding people / teams in various stages of Agile environment
• Excellent communicator with ability to negotiate, influence and explain
• Able to lead calmly through periods of high pressure whilst inspiring people and teams to achieve excellence and grow their skills
• Have drive, enthusiasm, and a can-do attitude
• Innovative and creative thinking.

Technical and Role Based Skills

• Extensive Agile (Lean, SaFE) experience and the flexibility to adapt your experience to new and evolving environments
• Industry-recognized certification, including but not limited to Scrum, Kanban, SAFe & Lean
• Knowledge of Portfolio Management and Product Management best practice
• Knowledge of continuous integration & deployment
• Knowledge and understanding of cross-delivery team and shared service dependency management
• Knowledge and experience of various Lean and SaFE methods and practises such as Design Thinking, Agile Release Trains, Planning Increment Events & Inspect and Adapt sessions
• Knowledge and experience of Agile (Lean, SaFE) development techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development, TDD - Test-driven development, Continuous Testing, Pairing and Automated Testing 
• Experience with workflow management tools like JIRA/Confluence.

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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