Scrum Master & Agile Coach - Business Agility Lead at AND Digital

Scrum Master & Agile Coach - Business Agility Lead

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 9-12 Months

Location: Edinburgh

On site requirement: 2dpw in Edinburgh office

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity. 

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Role:

The Purpose of the Business Agility Lead (BAL) is to work in partnership with Working Capital Lab (10+ Feature teams). They will drive effectiveness, efficiency and  predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace. The BAL is jointly responsible for the performance of the Lab including data quality, optimised flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices.  They will do this by transitioning to a data led approach to increase speed to market through related measures, introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track. This will be achieved by working hand in hand with Lab Leaders who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst providing coaching and transferring capabilities so that Teams are ultimately able  to do this for themselves in time.

• Improves Lab performance and productivity with relentless data focus across teams to improve maturity to deliver faster.
• Drives data quality and the accurate use of JIRA and JIRA Align.
• Uses data and insight to problem solve to inform team interventions to go faster.
• Identifies and delivers actionable insights to drive out waste in the connectivity of the work
• Coaches, challenges and influences Lab leaders to get back on track to deliver, improve and accelerate performance.
• Matures Lab ways of working.
• Supports effective planning and sequencing of the work at Lab level.
• Drives Lab cadence.
• Attends agile ceremonies.
• Agile ways of working guidance
• Connecting and driving best practice within the Platform

Agile Coaching

• Educates colleagues across the Lab to understand and implement agile practices, providing agile teams  with the necessary information, tools, equipment, observations and instruction, taking responsibility in maximising utilisation of Agile Methodology fully
• Supports colleagues within a specific business or technical area to implement and refine agile  practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge.  Understands different agile approaches and uses judgement to decide when and where to apply them.

Agile Methodology & tools

• Manages complex change within a business area through experience of agile teams  and builds excitement around agile ways of working. Helps to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and  advice, and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.

Leadership & Culture

• Applies experience in cultural change initiatives to support various agendas in the Bank (e.g., feedback culture). Understands the main barriers to changing culture and the criticality of leadership buy-in.

Problem Solving

• Creates possible solutions using a variety of methods through own experience, data, creativity  and knowledge of the customer, business and industry. Uses other techniques such as brainstorming, process  flows and hypothesis setting.

Joining AND

From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:

• We’re built for people - like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
• There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love - but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience.
• Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.