Job Title: Agile Coach
Location: Northampton
The Agile Coach will play a pivotal role in transforming the organisation’s ways of working by embedding Agile principles, frameworks and behaviours across technology teams. Operating as a trusted advisor and catalyst for change, you will guide teams and leaders in adopting high‑performing Agile practices, ensuring alignment with industry standards and the bank’s strategic objectives. This role focuses on enabling sustainable agility, improving delivery outcomes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of company offices, client sites, and your home, noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Your Role
- Agile Transformation Coaching
- Lead the adoption and maturation of Agile practices across multiple teams, ensuring consistent application of Scrum, Kanban and scaled frameworks
- Coach teams, Product Owners and senior stakeholders to internalise Agile mindset, principles and behaviours
- Facilitate the development of sprint goals, team charters, definitions of done and operating rhythms aligned with best practice
- Identify organisational constraints impacting agility and partner with leadership to remove systemic impediments
- Team Performance Capability Uplift
- Foster high‑performing engineering and delivery teams through hands‑on coaching, mentoring and continuous skill development
- Provide expert guidance to resolve complex delivery challenges while ensuring alignment with technology practices, regulatory obligations and business goals
- Drive the creation of measurable improvement plans focused on flow predictability, quality and customer value
- Continuous Improvement Innovation
- Identify and implement process improvements to optimise development lifecycle efficiency and effectiveness
- Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging frameworks, Agile tooling and modern engineering practices to continuously uplift organisational capability
- Actively contribute to Agile and technology communities of practice, promoting knowledge sharing and innovation
- Stakeholder Influence Collaboration
- Partner with business stakeholders, engineering leaders and cross‑functional teams to ensure alignment between Agile delivery, strategic objectives, risk policies and regulatory requirements
- Facilitate workshops, planning events, retrospectives and Agile ceremonies with clarity, neutrality and impact
- Influence decision‑making at senior levels using strong negotiation and facilitation skills
Agile Coach Expectations
- Strategic Leadership Change Enablement
- Shape and contribute to Agile strategy change roadmaps and frameworks that enhance enterprise‑wide ways of working
- Recommend improvements to delivery processes, governance models and tooling to increase overall agility and effectiveness
- Ensure continuous improvement initiatives comply with risk control and governance requirements
People Leadership if applicable
- Define roles, responsibilities and future workforce needs aligned to Agile transformation goals
- Coach, mentor and develop team members demonstrating the organisation’s LEAD behaviours
o L Listen and be authentic
o E Energise and inspire
o A Align across the enterprise
o D Develop others
- Individual Contributor Path if applicable
- Operate as a subject‑matter expert in Agile disciplines, influencing multi‑year programmes and major transformation initiatives
- Guide teams through complex problem‑solving, integrating insights from research, analytics and industry benchmarks
- Coach and mentor less experienced specialists, nurturing the next generation of Agile practitioners
Risk Controls Governance
- Champion strong risk management and control practices within Agile delivery
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks impacting Agile adoption or delivery outcomes
- Ensure ways of working comply with organisational regulatory and security expectations
- Enterprise Collaboration
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment across functions
- Collaborate across business and technology domains to maintain visibility of strategy, evolving priorities and dependencies
Required Experience
- Demonstrable experience transforming teams and organisations through Agile adoption, coaching and scaled frameworks
- Prior experience as an Agile Coach operating in large, complex enterprise environments
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills at senior and cross‑functional levels
- Experience applying Agile in technology and engineering settings with the ability to coach on delivery flow, quality and technical practices
Highly Valued Skills
- Agile certifications e.g. CSM, CSP, ICP‑ACC, SAFe, LeSS
- Experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead
- Technical background or strong understanding of software development practices
- Experience with large‑scale Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, Spotify Model, Nexus
We are a Disability Confident Employer
Capgemini is proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.
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