Agile Coach
Posted 5 days ago by Synergize Consulting
£400 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Agile Coach role in Glasgow involves leading Agile adoption within a major transformation programme in the financial services sector. The position requires extensive experience in SAFe Agile coaching and aims to enhance Agile maturity across multiple teams. The coach will facilitate Agile ceremonies and promote lean product delivery while collaborating with various stakeholders. This role is crucial for embedding a strong Agile culture and delivering measurable business value.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coaching teams, leaders, and portfolios on Agile & SAFe best practices
- Driving Agile maturity improvements across multiple delivery teams
- Facilitating PI Planning, Agile ceremonies, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Promoting lean, customer-centric product delivery and outcome-based planning
- Supporting flow optimisation using techniques such as WIP limits and smaller batch sizes
- Collaborating with engineering, product, and leadership teams to align delivery goals
- Using data-driven insights (KPIs, OKRs, WSJF) to improve prioritisation and decision-making
- Helping embed a strong Agile culture across the organisation
Key Skills:
- Strong experience delivering SAFe Agile coaching within complex enterprise environments
- Deep understanding of SAFe frameworks across Team, ToT, and Portfolio levels
- Proven experience coaching product and technology delivery teams at scale
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Experience working within large-scale transformation programmes
- Knowledge of engineering/platform environments and built-in quality practices
- SAFe, Scrum, ICAgile, or related Agile certifications preferred
Salary (Rate): £400 per day
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Contract Agile Coach Glasgow December 2026 end date £400 per day Inside IR35 2-3 days onsite per week in Glasgow We’re looking for an experienced Agile Coach to join a major transformation programme within a leading financial services environment. This is an exciting opportunity to drive Agile adoption at scale across multiple technology-aligned business areas, supporting teams and leadership in embedding SAFe ways of working and delivering measurable business value.
Key skills Strong experience delivering SAFe Agile coaching within complex enterprise environments Deep understanding of SAFe frameworks across Team, ToT, and Portfolio levels Proven experience coaching product and technology delivery teams at scale Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills Experience working within large-scale transformation programmes Knowledge of engineering/platform environments and built-in quality practices SAFe, Scrum, ICAgile, or related Agile certifications preferred
What you’ll be doing: Coaching teams, leaders, and portfolios on Agile & SAFe best practices Driving Agile maturity improvements across multiple delivery teams Facilitating PI Planning, Agile ceremonies, and continuous improvement initiatives Promoting lean, customer-centric product delivery and outcome-based planning Supporting flow optimisation using techniques such as WIP limits and smaller batch sizes Collaborating with engineering, product, and leadership teams to align delivery goals Using data-driven insights (KPIs, OKRs, WSJF) to improve prioritisation and decision-making Helping embed a strong Agile culture across the organisation If you’re passionate about driving Agile excellence and enabling high-performing teams within a large-scale transformation environment, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or message directly for more information.