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Join Barclays as an Agile Coach and play a key role in the GTIS–CTO transformation programme, driving the adoption of agile ways of working across multiple technology-aligned business areas. You will support teams at all levels, ensuring alignment with CtB transformation goals. The role focuses on coaching, mentoring, and guiding teams through SAFe practices, enabling PI planning and agile ceremonies, and fostering continuous improvement to enhance delivery efficiency and adaptability.
Job Responsibility:
Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices
Foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies, facilitating collaboration, and removing barriers to efficiency
Align Agile practices with organisational goals and support long-term, sustainable Agile transformations
Mentor and coach: Guide teams and leaders on Agile principles, practices, tools, and methodologies in alignment to the Business Unit’s strategic needs and delivering value to the client/customers
Facilitate Colleague Development:Coach and Develop colleagues to embed Agile ways of working, championing an Agile mindset and behaviors to drive cultural change
Build High-Performing Teams: Help teams identify and address impediments to Agile execution and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
Continuous Improvement: Use data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and growth
Cross Business Collaboration: Collaborate with other Agile Coaches, share best practice and contribute to a network of Agile champions across Business Units
Agile Adoption: Own the Agile coaching strategy to continually improve maturity levels across the organisation by embedding best practices
Requirements:
Expertise in Business Agility & SAFe implementation across multiple organisational layers
Demonstrated capability to coach at Teams, Teams of Teams (ToT), and Portfolio levels, aligning ways of working and governance to PI cadence, flow principles & value breakdown for early & iterative value delivery
Proven ability to coach multiple product and delivery teams at scale, improving flow, predictability, and performance through Agile maturity assessments, targeted coaching, and best practices such as WIP limits, smaller batch sizes, and flow management
Strong focus on embedding customer-centric product delivery, promoting a product mindset, lean principles, and outcome-based planning, and translating technical work into clear epics, features, and stories aligned to DoR/DoD
Nice to have:
Experience working in complex change environments with Programme–Product interaction, ensuring alignment while maintaining team empowerment and end-to-end ownership across organisational boundaries
Good understanding of infrastructure, platform, or engineering practices, with the ability to support “built-in quality,” MVP-aligned architecture, and effective collaboration with engineering leadership
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and contribute to governance forums, using data (e.g. WSJF, KPIs, OKRs) to drive prioritisation, decision-making, and continuous improvement
SAFe, Scrum, ICAgile (product management or coaching), or similar Agile certifications
What we offer:
Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
Onsite gym
Many clubs and groups
Immersive events (firework displays, gigs, diverse celebrations, art & crafts sessions)
Shuttle bus from local bus, tram, and train stations on weekdays