Agile Coach

As an Agile Coach, you will develop scrum principles and sprint goals aligned to industry best practices and the bank's objectives to foster a high performing technology team and support the successful progression on scrum projects.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Management and fostering of a high performing engineering team by providing high quality technical guidance and support to resolve complex challenges aligned to the bank's technology practices, industry best practice, and the bank's business objectives.
• Identification and implementation of process improvement initiatives to enhance the technology development process in an efficient and effective manner.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and innovations, actively contributing to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and growth.
• Collaboration with business stakeholders, developers, and other technology teams to ensure technology initiatives align with business objectives, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies and procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department's future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions and changes.
• Lead several specialists to influence the operations of a department in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short- and long-term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are L – Listen and be authentic; E – Energise and inspire; A – Align across the enterprise; D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• Lead collaborative multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments; identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists; provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Disability Confident Employer: We are a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real: You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.