Senior Agile Coach
New technologies and disruptive change are creating exciting opportunities: to work differently, to work better and to find new ways of creating value for us and the clients we serve. As part of our NextWave strategy, our Agile Coaches will provide Leadership, Support and Direction to our clients and their technology centric programmes. They will be responsible for the delivery and/or maintenance of Digital Solutions across our vast client portfolio, and coordinate work across different client IT teams to ensure successful delivery outcomes. We are looking to recruit high performing individuals with a proven track record as an Agile Coach/Lead with experience in large-scale digital transformations to be part of our leading and growing Technology Consulting business.
The opportunity
By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will be helping our clients solve a whole range of challenges - from the requirement to respond to the ever-changing demands of the market, to overseeing large and complex transformation programmes that truly transform our clients’ ways of working, As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.
If you have a keen interest in Technology Enabled Change, as well as intellectual curiosity and energy, then Technology Consulting could be exactly the right place for you and your next career move.
Your key responsibilities
Client Responsibilities
- Support clients to establish and embed Agile ways of working across their organisations
- Be an Agile Evangelist, mentoring and coaching client teams in the adoption of Agile principles, framework and tools
- Establish and embed practices to deliver products in an agile way, coaching the teams in Agile Delivery Methods across ideations, vision creation, estimating and self-organisation
- Leads and coordinates Agile development and ways of working (Lean, DevOps, Scrum) across client teams
- Drives client teams by applying Agile processes to achieve an optimised work-flow through continuous improvement
- Helps create an environment that fosters a high-performing, self-managed, dynamic team minimising impediments to development progress across our client teams
- Observes and coaches the client on how best to facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, iteration planning, team demo, and retrospective iteration across our client teams and projects
- Coaches members of the team, as needed, to optimise the efficiency of the product team
Internal Responsibilities
- Understand all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines
- Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative insights for clients looking to leverage their vendor framework, improve their IT offerings, execute on Programme commitments and adapt methods and practices to fit operational teams and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership
- Lead Technology Consulting engagements, managing team performance and commercials including conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback for all levels of staff and managing engagement billings, and estimates to complete
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
- Understand, follow and lead staff in workplace policies and procedures.
Skills and attributes for success
To do this role effectively, we are looking for people with knowledge and experience in the following areas:
To qualify for the role you must have
- A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution
- Additional professional qualifications, such as Scrum, SAFe or Diploma Level in Agile Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body
- At least 7 years’ experience working in a client facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes or at least 10 years’ experience working for a leading company, in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes
- Experience in one or more of our focus industries including Power & Utilities, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Tech and Media, Advanced Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
- Experience of one or more technology areas including but not limited to ERP, CRM. Digital Workplace, CX, Cloud Migration and/or integrations, Data & Analytics, RPA, Emerging Tech, IoT, Blockchain
- Experience of working in the establishment, training and management of Agile teams comprised of client, contractors and client’s strategic partners
- Experience in Software Development and Agile Methodologies in an IT environment
- Proven ability to lead software development projects and ensure objectives and goals are met
- In-depth knowledge and experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies, enterprise-level application development and Scaled Agile Frameworks and methodologies
- Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit a mix of audiences and ability to translate strategy into measurable business benefits
- Have a track record of delivery within several large-scale IT transformation programmes
- Have experience in seeking the alignment of business and IT, operating across organisational and technology silos to drive common approaches, delivering sustainable, agile and re-usable solutions
- Have a proven ability to be able to take a ‘big picture’ delivery and project management view as well as being able to work at a detailed level across a broad range of contract types and engagement approaches
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Will be required to work with various stakeholders at all levels, and maintain high levels of trust
- Self-directed, innovative, and excellent organisational and presentation skills
- Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to development teams and to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex product risks and issues
- Ability to provide leadership to business analysts and collaborate with stakeholders and develop strategies and solutions of high business value to our clients
- Effective interpersonal skills including influencing, mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
What we look for
Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritise shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator and a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion for technology and making things happen in a dynamic organisation. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.
What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
- Free enrolment in EY’s Tech MBA Programme accredited by Hult International Business School.
About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and consulting services, we’re using the frameworks, tools, and accelerators we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer a reality!
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Join us in building a better working world and build your legacy with us.
Apply now.
