Senior Agile Coach

Brickendon Consulting is an award-winning global management and technology consultancy specializing in innovative solutions and transforming complex, highly regulated environments. Founded in 2010, Brickendon has a strong focus on financial services and the public sector, helping organizations navigate and implement significant changes.

We support our people, our clients and the wider community. We have committed to being net zero by 2028, are signatories to the HMRC women in finance charter and support a range of charities that support those less fortunate worldwide.

We are currently looking for an Agile Coach for one of our banking clients with the following set of skills:

✅Work model: hybrid in Warsaw or Krakow (around days per month in the office)

✅Contract: B2B

Role responsibilities:

• Support adoption of Agile Ways of working as per the Roadmap by: adherence to Agile Change Framework standards, PMO Handbook guidance’s and any Agile delivery requirements
• Deliver of relevant Agile trainings and working on the content as needed
• Delivery of Team/Leadership Coachings as required
• Active participation in Agile related assessments (proficiency, maturity etc)
• Facilitation of Agile ceremonies (retrospective, Sprint, PI Planning) and supporting particular Team roles (Scrum Master/Product Owner/Development Team)
• Managing Teams to self-organize and deliver in an agile / scrum manner, enabling continuous improvement of change and run activities aligned to the product roadmap and customer expectations
• Navigating through a complex environment of factors including size, legacy systems, and tooling to achieve thorough agile process implementation
• Managing all stakeholders and keeping them informed to support the transition from waterfall to agile
• Moving the group passed a legacy waterfall approach in many cases
• Proactive participation in designing the Agile Ways of Working Roadmap, Proficiency Assessment, Training
• Plan, Coaching model, Support/Service model

Knowledge and experience:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Agile Coach role
• Experience of working in data-related change, preferably within financial services
• Understanding / knowledge of data in particular and best practices
• Experience in applying agile methodology in project and product development
• Understand the challenge of transition from Waterfall to Agile and be able to drive Agile delivery during that transition
• Ability to adapt Agile and Scrum practices to the unique challenges of data change, in line with business and delivery needs
• Awareness of Lean, Agile Scrum, Agile Kanban, and Design Thinking
• Ability to lead and motivate Agile and cross-functional teams
• Experience with Agile management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certificate or similar gives advantage
• Effective governance and stakeholder management (IT and Business)
• Exposure and success working within a global matrix organisation model
• Understanding Servant Leader in terms of creating right environment for the team to succeed
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills