IT Agile Coach | Project Manager | Contract | London Deloitte - Recruitment•London, LND, gb
Contract Role: IT Agile Coach / Project Manager
Contract Location: London 4-5 days onsite each week
Contract Start: Starting ASAP (inside IR35)
Contract duration: End of 2026
The IT Agile Coach / Project Manager is a senior delivery professional responsible for improving organisational agility and supporting strategic delivery. The role is approximately 70% Agile coaching and 30% project management, focused on helping leaders, Product Owners and delivery teams adopt Lean-Agile practices that improve collaboration, value delivery and continuous improvement.
Within Information & Digital Engineering (IDE), the role builds Agile capability while providing project management support to deliver outcomes with appropriate governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
Key Accountabilities
- Agile Coaching and Capability Building
- Coach leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams in Lean-Agile practices.
- Assess ways of working and identify improvement opportunities.
- Build capability through mentoring, facilitation, training and communities of practice.
- Promote servant leadership, transparency, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Support leaders in enabling Agile ways of working.
Team and Delivery Effectiveness
- Facilitate planning, retrospectives, dependency workshops and multi-team events.
- Improve prioritisation, backlog quality and outcome-focused delivery.
- Identify and address impediments, risks and dependencies.
- Use delivery metrics to support continuous improvement.
- Partner with product, engineering, architecture and business stakeholders to align delivery with business goals.
Project Delivery and Governance
- Lead projects and delivery initiatives through the appropriate lifecycle.
- Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality and benefits.
- Establish effective governance and reporting.
- Ensure compliance with delivery and assurance standards.
- Communicate progress, risks, decisions and actions clearly.
Leadership and Community Contribution
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
- Influence and challenge constructively using evidence and judgement.
- Support high-performing teams through coaching and collaboration.
- Contribute to Agile and Delivery Management communities of practice.
- Mentor Agile practitioners and project managers.
Expected Outcomes
- Successful delivery of agreed project objectives, effective governance and financial control, transparent reporting, proactive risk management, successful business transition and adoption, and a collaborative, high-performing delivery team.
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It Agile Coach | Project Manager | Contract | London employer: Deloitte - Recruitment
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