Agile Coach Remote Location

Summary: The Agile Coach role involves coaching entire organizations and programs to implement agile transformations effectively. The position requires designing multi-team structures, facilitating organizational conversations, and mentoring junior Scrum Masters while focusing on measurable outcomes and engineering culture shifts. The coach will operate as a trusted advisor to leadership, utilizing data to influence and improve delivery health across teams. A strong emphasis is placed on DORA metrics and fostering psychological safety within teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach entire organizations and programs - not just individual teams
• Design and execute a multi-team agile transformation program with measurable milestones
• Operate as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership - providing candid, data-backed input on delivery health
• Design ADO structure for multi-team environments: area paths, team configurations, cross-team dependency tracking, portfolio-level visibility
• Implement at scale: overall retrospectives, cross-team sprint synchronization, area product ownership, self-selection processes
• Lead without authority - influence vendor teams, internal teams, and organizational structures
• Design and implement a comprehensive metrics framework: flow, stability (DORA), quality, and backlog health
• Shift engineering culture from output-focused to outcome-focused - and sustain that shift
• Facilitate difficult organizational conversations: between PMO and engineering, between vendors and product, between teams and leadership
• Build SM capability in others - mentor junior and mid-level SMs, identify gaps, provide structured coaching
• Demonstrated scaled experience - not just familiarity, actual operation in or implementation
• DORA metrics literacy - can explain what deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and MTTR mean and how to improve them
• Experience challenging and changing organizational structures that block team effectiveness - not just working around them
• Evidence of having built and sustained psychological safety on teams that were previously defensive or siloed
• Ability to run executive-level conversations using delivery data - not status updates, constraint analysis
• Operates across multiple teams simultaneously with full situational awareness on each
• Produces a quarterly maturity assessment for each team with trend data and forward plan
• Drives DORA metric baseline: deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR are tracked and improving
• Cross-team impediments are owned and driven to resolution - not left in a shared log
• Contributes to the engineering standards playbook - not just applies it
• Conducts structured capability reviews for junior and mid-level SMs under their oversight

Key Skills:

• Leadership Essentials - Managing Secure Delivery and Operations
• Project Management
• Experience Required: 10 & Above

Salary (Rate): £55 hourly

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Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other