Your new role
An experienced Agile Lead is sought to mentor, build, and support cross-functional teams in delivering high-value business outcomes. This role is responsible for driving agile delivery, fostering a high-performance culture, and ensuring continuous improvement across teams while balancing time, cost, and scope considerations.
Working in a complex, transformation-focused environment, the Agile Lead will apply agile methodologies and human-centred design principles to deliver solutions that meet user needs and maximise business value.
Key Responsibilities
Agile Delivery & Execution
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver iterative, value-driven solutions aligned to business priorities
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Manage delivery across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, and quality expectations
- Determine fit-for-purpose delivery approaches using appropriate agile frameworks
Coaching & Capability Development
- Coach and mentor teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders in agile principles and practices.
- Build agile capability and maturity across teams, promoting a culture of continuous improvement
- Foster high-performing, empowered teams with strong collaboration and ownership
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions to solve complex business problems
- Prepare and deliver presentations, updates, and reports to a range of audiences, including senior leadership.
- Translate technical concepts into clear business language
Risk & Performance Management
- Identify, assess, and proactively manage risks and issues
- Monitor delivery progress and agile maturity using relevant metrics
- Provide regular status updates, highlighting key risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities
What you'll need to succeed
Skills & Experience
Essential Experience
- Proven experience in Agile roles such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Iteration Manager, Release Train Engineer, or Agile Project Manager
- Demonstrated success delivering complex initiatives in agile environments
- Strong experience leading and developing high-performing teams
Methodologies & Frameworks
- Expertise in agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean)
- Familiarity with DevOps, ITIL, continuous delivery, and design thinking practices
- Experience applying human-centred design principles
Core Capabilities
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including experience working with senior leaders
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Proven ability to manage ambiguity, resolve conflict, and drive outcomes in complex environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and laterally
What you need to do now
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