At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead agile transformation and shape agile practices across the organisation.
- Company: Join Yorkshire Building Society, where members come first and collaboration thrives.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, bonuses, pension contributions, and comprehensive health benefits.
- Other info: Build a rewarding career with excellent growth opportunities and a focus on wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on agile delivery in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in agile leadership and influencing senior stakeholders.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Agile Chapter Lead (E1) Shape how agile works in Yorkshire Building Society.
This is a strategic leadership role combining agile framework ownership, coaching capability and organisational transformation, with strong executive influence.
You’ll define how agile operates in practice balancing pace, control and outcomes across the enterprise.
About the role The Chapter Lead Agile is accountable for defining and embedding the enterprise agile operating model, standards and practices, ensuring effective and scalable agile delivery across the organisation.
Own and evolve the enterprise agile framework, playbooks, tooling and delivery patterns, ensuring they are practical, proportionate and aligned to a regulated environment.
Use flow metrics, health indicators and delivery insight to inform prioritisation, remove systemic blockers and improve delivery performance and team effectiveness.
Lead cross-functional alignment between agile delivery, governance, risk and compliance to ensure agile practices integrate effectively with control, audit and regulatory requirements.
About you You are a senior agile leader with experience shaping agile at enterprise scale, able to balance practical delivery with governance, assurance and organisational constraints.
Significant experience leading agile capability, frameworks and coaching communities across large, complex change environments.
Strong technical capability in agile methods, flow-based metrics, scaled delivery models and embedding agile ways of working within regulated organisations.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders to adopt effective agile behaviours, remove blockers and improve delivery outcomes in complex, multi-team environments.
About us At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members.
We care about people and that includes you.
So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
About our Benefits Holiday.
You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
Bonus.
At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
Pension.
We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up to 11% into your YBS pension.
Healthcare.
Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
My Benefits.
When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Contact Details:
Yorkshire Building Society Group Recruitment Team
