Agile Coach

Why this job matters Our Agile Coaches are servant leaders and enablers; coaching multiple teams at scale, providing guidance and expertise on Agile methodology, standards and frameworks and uplifting capability across Consumer Digital. You'll focus on embedding agile principles, methods and practices to improve delivery, ways of working and maturity within the organisation to achieve desired outcomes. You'll foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. Key focuses include: facilitating planning and alignment at a program/portfolio level in a transparent, collaborative manner; identifying opportunities to unlock business value earlier, championing the embedment of best practices, great leadership and truly autonomous teams.
Please note, we have 3 vacancies in each of these locations: Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester. What you’ll be doing 1. Executes the implementation of Agile process focused on product planning, development and delivery and establish governance across cross-functional teams.
2. Supports strategic consulting for development teams (pods), engineering leadership, Scrum masters, product management, product owners, and leadership to determine strengths and weaknesses and set action plans for continuous and relentless improvement.
3. Organises and participates in partnerships with leaders across the group to foster Agile principles.
4. Leverages the Scrum master community to identify systemic inhibitors of Agile ways of working and drive the resolution of these to enable the successful scaling of Agile delivery.
5. Follows BT Group's Agile learning programme delivering Agile training and curriculum solutions, individually and in partnership with human capital partners.
6. Delivers Agile capability uplift through working with Scrum masters, across the team and broader BT (e.g. training, custom workshops, coaching, mentoring, value stream analysis, etc.).
7. Executes the implementation of practices, tools and professional standards and frameworks across Agile disciplines continuously evolving based on business need or industry changes.
8. Collates Agile internal support documentation in a central repository (i.e., documentation, diagrams, presentations, flowcharts, and other artifacts).
9. Works with other Agile coaches to establish and evolve BT Agile frameworks and guidance, and improve the application of Agile practices across BT.
10. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Agile Coaching. What we're looking for We're looking for someone with experience implementing Lean-Agile ways of working in a large, complex organisation, with a good understanding of the software delivery lifecycle. Given the nature of the role, we'd also expect that you'd have strong knowledge of Agile frameworks, and ideally SAFe Practice Consultant Certification. The skills you’ll need Agile Development Objectives and Key Results (OKR) Strategy Continuous Improvement Problem Solving Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Stakeholder Management Conflict Resolution Coaching Interpersonal Agile Methodologies KPI/Metric Monitoring Organisational Transformation Risk Management/Impediments Software Development Lifecycle Backlogs & Iterative Development Our leadership standards Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation. Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making. Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best. About us BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.