Senior Agile Coach, Certified (Ref: 5548)

• Coach teams, product owners, scrum masters, and leaders in Agile values, principles, roles, and ceremonies.
• Mentor product owners in backlog prioritization, refinement, and engagement with stakeholders.
• Support teams in self-organization, collaboration, continuous improvement, and constructive conflict resolution.

• Facilitate cross-team alignment across streams delivering connected services.
• Lead or support multi-team planning, roadmap sessions, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Identify and assist in resolving cross-team dependencies, risks, and delivery challenges.

• Assess team structures and delivery processes and recommend improvements.
• Recommend and help implement Agile frameworks, tools, and practices that enhance collaboration and delivery flow.
• Introduce or refine delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, flow measures, predictability) to track progress and improvement.

• Support organizational adoption of Agile practices and alignment with public sector governance frameworks.
• Facilitate workshops and large group planning or visioning sessions with internal and external stakeholders.

• Lead or support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate workshops and coordination meetings to support alignment and delivery.

• Support teams in documenting requirements, decisions, and delivery artefacts using tools such as Jira, and Confluence.

• Coaching plans and Agile maturity guidance for multiple delivery teams.
• Facilitation of cross-team planning, retrospectives, workshops, and alignment sessions.
• Recommendations and documentation for team structure, process improvements, and Agile practice alignment.
• Regular reporting on Agile maturity, delivery metrics, and progress across teams.
• Documentation of decisions and processes using Agile tools.
• Knowledge transfer to internal staff to ensure sustainable Agile adoption.

• Agile Certification such as Scrum Alliance.
• Minimum of 10-years working in related field in Information Technology which will include the following:
  • Minimum 5 years of experience providing Agile coaching services.
  • Demonstrated experience coaching teams in Agile values, principles, ceremonies, and roles.
• Experience assessing and improving team structures and delivery processes.
• Experience facilitating large-scale planning and strategic workshops.
• Experience in or understanding of public or regulated sector environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills.

• Minimum 5 years of experience coaching in scaled Agile or multiteam environments.
• Experience working with connected services, cross ministry programs, or complex delivery environments.
• Experience with Agile product and delivery tools (Jira, Confluence, digital delivery frameworks).

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