Agile Coach
Posted Today by Lorien
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Edinburgh, UK
Summary: The Agile Coach role is a contract position focused on providing expert delivery support for a large-scale Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme. The successful candidate will work at both programme and system levels, collaborating with Product Owners, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders to enhance delivery and implement Agile practices. This position requires immediate impact and the ability to stabilize delivery across multiple workstreams. The role is flexible, allowing for a mix of remote work and site attendance as needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coach Product Owners, delivery teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles with a focus on outcomes, flow, and value delivery
- Support the Product Owner in defining programme vision, purpose, and success criteria
- Embed consistent and effective Agile frameworks suited to large-scale programme delivery
- Improve delivery predictability, cadence, and transparency
- Facilitate key Agile ceremonies including planning, reviews, and retrospectives where required
- Identify and help resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and impediments
- Support programme planning, prioritisation, and backlog management
- Enable effective collaboration across multiple teams and disciplines
- Partner closely with the Product Owner to maintain delivery focus and governance alignment
- Embed pragmatic and sustainable Agile ways of working
- Support maturity uplift across teams with varying levels of Agile experience
- Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring
- Establish clear team interfaces and working agreements
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as an Agile Coach on large, complex programmes
- Strong capability operating at programme and system level
- Deep understanding of Agile delivery within cross-functional organisations
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Agile Coach - (Contract)
Location: Flexible (mix of remote working and site attendance as required)
Start Date: ASAP
Engagement Type: Contractor
The Role
We are seeking a highly experienced Agile Coach to provide immediate and expert delivery support to a large-scale, high-profile Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme.
This is a critical, time-sensitive role where you will operate at both programme and system level, working closely with Product Owners, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders to stabilise delivery, improve flow, and embed consistent Agile practices across multiple workstreams.
This opportunity will suit someone who can hit the ground running and deliver measurable impact from day one.
Key Responsibilities
Agile Coaching & Delivery Enablement
- Coach Product Owners, delivery teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles with a focus on outcomes, flow, and value delivery
- Support the Product Owner in defining programme vision, purpose, and success criteria
- Embed consistent and effective Agile frameworks suited to large-scale programme delivery
- Improve delivery predictability, cadence, and transparency
- Facilitate key Agile ceremonies including planning, reviews, and retrospectives where required
Programme-Level Support
- Identify and help resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and impediments
- Support programme planning, prioritisation, and backlog management
- Enable effective collaboration across multiple teams and disciplines
- Partner closely with the Product Owner to maintain delivery focus and governance alignment
Capability Building & Ways of Working
- Embed pragmatic and sustainable Agile ways of working
- Support maturity uplift across teams with varying levels of Agile experience
- Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring
- Establish clear team interfaces and working agreements
Experience & Skills Required
- Proven experience as an Agile Coach on large, complex programmes
- Strong capability operating at programme and system level
- Deep understanding of Agile delivery within cross-functional organisations
- Excellent facilitation, coaching, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.