Agile Coach
Posted 3 days ago by Cognitive Group | Part of the Focus Cloud Group
Negotiable
Inside
Onsite
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Agile Coach will lead the adoption of Agile methodologies within a regulated financial services environment, focusing on enhancing team performance and compliance. This role involves coaching various stakeholders, facilitating key Agile events, and driving cultural change towards high-value delivery. The position requires a strong understanding of Agile frameworks and modern engineering practices, along with the ability to influence senior stakeholders. The role is based in Glasgow and is classified as inside IR35, requiring onsite presence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on coaching to Product Owners, Scrum Masters, engineers, and leaders to increase Agile maturity and delivery effectiveness.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to transition teams from traditional delivery models to Lean-Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS) at scale.
- Lead key events (PI Planning, QBRs, retrospectives) and remove complex delivery impediments across multiple teams.
- Embed Agile practices that align with regulatory obligations, audit requirements, risk frameworks, and internal controls.
- Use metrics (e.g., DORA, lead time, throughput) to drive predictable, high-quality, value-led delivery.
- Promote servant leadership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement across technology and business functions.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years’ Agile coaching experience within large, regulated organisations — ideally financial services.
- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and scaling frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Disciplined Agile).
- Solid understanding of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, DevOps, cloud environments).
- Confident facilitator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate within complex governance structures.
- Advanced proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
- Relevant certification preferred (e.g., SPC, CSC, ICAgile).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Looking for an Agile Coach to lead the adoption and embedding of Agile ways of working across a regulated financial services environment. Enable high-performing, customer-focused squads to deliver value faster while maintaining strong governance, risk, and compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Coaching & Mentoring: Provide hands-on coaching to Product Owners, Scrum Masters, engineers, and leaders to increase Agile maturity and delivery effectiveness.
- Enterprise Transformation: Partner with senior stakeholders to transition teams from traditional delivery models to Lean-Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS) at scale.
- Facilitation: Lead key events (PI Planning, QBRs, retrospectives) and remove complex delivery impediments across multiple teams.
- Governance & Control: Embed Agile practices that align with regulatory obligations, audit requirements, risk frameworks, and internal controls.
- Performance & Value: Use metrics (e.g., DORA, lead time, throughput) to drive predictable, high-quality, value-led delivery.
- Cultural Change: Promote servant leadership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement across technology and business functions.
Experience & Skills
- 5+ years’ Agile coaching experience within large, regulated organisations — ideally financial services.
- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and scaling frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Disciplined Agile).
- Solid understanding of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, DevOps, cloud environments).
- Confident facilitator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate within complex governance structures.
- Advanced proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
- Relevant certification preferred (e.g., SPC, CSC, ICAgile).
This will be an inside IR35 contract role working via umbrella company so you must be eligible to be based and work in the UK. The role requires onsite work for the customer in Glasgow.