Agile Coach

Job Description

Purpose of the role

Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices. To foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies, facilitating collaboration, and removing barriers to efficiency. Align Agile practices with organisational goals and support long-term, sustainable Agile transformations.

Accountabilities

Mentor and coach : Guide teams and leaders on Agile principles, practices, tools, and methodologies in alignment to the Business Unit’s strategic needs and delivering value to the client / customers

Facilitate Colleague Development: Coach and Develop colleagues to embed Agile ways of working, championing an Agile mindset and behaviors to drive cultural change

Build High-Performing Teams: Help teams identify and address impediments to Agile execution and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning

Continuous Improvement: Use data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and growth

Cross Business Collaboration: Collaborate with other Agile Coaches, share best practice and contribute to a network of Agile champions across Business Units

Agile Adoption: Own the Agile coaching strategy to continually improve maturity levels across the organisation by embedding best practices.

Join Barclays as an Agile Coach role, where to foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies, facilitating collaboration, and removing barriers to efficiency. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

Expertise in Business Agility & SAFe implementation across multiple organisational layers

Demonstrated capability to coach at Teams, Teams of Teams (ToT), and Portfolio levels, aligning ways of working and governance to PI cadence, flow principles & value breakdown for early & iterative value delivery.

Proven experience coaching multiple product/delivery teams at scale to improve flow, predictability, and performance

Skilled at uplifting Agile maturity through regular maturity reviews and targeted coaching for continuous improvement, supporting Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Engineers, and RTEs, and embedding practices such as limiting WIP, reducing batch sizes, managing flow across Kanban boards, establishing clear intake–analysis–ready–in progress steps, and driving improvements in key metrics (lead/cycle time, predictability, quality, business value delivery).

Strong ability to embed customer centric product delivery behaviours within teams and leadership

Able to reinforce the product mindset —customer value, iterative value delivery, lean principles, hypothesis driven development, outcome-based planning and measurement, and translation of infrastructure related work into clearly articulated Business Epics, Capabilities, Features, and Stories that meet DoR/DoD expectations.

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

Experience coaching within complex change environments involving Programme–Product interaction

Understanding of handoff models (Team → ToT → Portfolio), ensuring alignment without losing product empowerment, end to end ownership, and ensuring flow across organisational boundaries while maintaining customer centric decision making.

Some understanding of infrastructure, platform, or engineering domain practices

Ability to advocate for “quality built in” behaviours, MVP aligned architecture practices, and collaboration with Engineering Managers, Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, ensuring Agile practices remain relevant and effective in technical delivery contexts.

Capability to influence senior stakeholders and participate in governance forums Using data to guide value-based prioritisation (including WSJF), flow decisions, and continuous improvement recommendations.

Proven ability to coach leadership in forming OKRs and using KPIs to track progress against the customer/business outcomes on their roadmap - assisting portfolio leads in making data-led investment decisions aligned to PI cadence.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Pune office.