Agile Coach

The Role:

You will be primarily responsible for leading projects for our client using available frameworks and tools establishing project road-maps with on-time and on-budget project goals. You will join our high performance team of experienced Agile leaders and act as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or co-ordinating an area in Agile Coaching.

• Leading business consulting projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments
• Fully understanding the capabilities and limitations of technical environments and translate business goals into tangible strategic outcomes
• Keeping informed on business data and implement solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes
• Co-ordinating the information gathering and reporting process, reviewing trends and comparing to expectations. Identify relationships and linkages, anticipates issues and identifies root causes and effects
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and work across teams to achieve group goal
• Developing a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks

• A Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• A formal certification as an Agile Coach, kanban lead, lean six sigma certification or similar Agile approach
• A certified scrum professional or a similar Agile qualification

• The ability to communicate engagement progress and burn-down, risks and complex concepts to client and Expleo alike
• The ability to contribute to the creation of agreeable mitigation approaches for removing team blockers and risk resolution
• The ability to influence and negotiate with client stakeholders and senior leadership teams
• Excellent client-facing skills
• Team management skills - experience in leading multiple teams in Agile software delivery approaches

The ideal candidate for this Scrum Master role will have relevant experience of common management and reporting toolsets such as Azure DevOps, confluence and JIRA.

You'll also need experience of:

• Lean portfolio management experience
• Coaching development teams (including distributed teams) who are new to an Agile software delivery approach
• Demonstrating lean thinking and an Agile mind-set in how they work internally and externally
• Delivering Agile training course to clients
• Applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge. Has practical experience of and is proficient with tools and frameworks required to deliver
• Contributing to delivery utilising multiple project management methodologies / framework, tools and techniques
• Design Thinking, Kanban, Big Room Planning, Lean Portfolio Management knowledge is beneficial

• You'll also need to be flexible to travel to client sites across the UK as required and be eligible for SC and BPSS clearance.

You'll also get the following benefits with the role:

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
• 25 days annual leave (increased to 27 after 2 years of service)
• Flexible/hybrid working model
• Access to discounts and offers through my expleo benefits

- Expleo academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses

• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
• Enhanced maternity and paternity, adoption and shared parental leave package

Full details of the package on offer will be revealed once we receive your application.

The Company:

Why Expleo?

We're a great company to work for. People join us for many reasons, such as we:

• Are an established, rapidly growing business
• Support our employees career growth with training and development opportunities
• Offer a collaborative, engaging culture

At Expleo Technology, we work continuously to build a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We welcome and encourage candidates from all aspects of diversity to apply for this, and any of our advertised roles.