Agile Delivery Coach

Pontoon
Halifax, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 143K

Job location

Halifax, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Data analysis
Confluence
JIRA
Scrum

Job description

As a Business Agility Lead, you'll partner closely with Lab Leaders to boost effectiveness, efficiency and predictability across the teams you support. You'll be jointly responsible for Lab performance, ensuring strong data quality, optimised flow of work and mature Agile practices.

You'll coach teams to adopt Agile mindsets, build capability and ultimately empower them to self-improve over time. Using data, insights and your Agile expertise, you'll help drive faster speed to market, identify opportunities for improvement and guide teams back on track when performance dips.

You'll support both new and established Agile teams - helping them apply the right practices, tools and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, scaled models etc.) depending on their maturity and the type of work.

Every day, you'll be solving problems, facilitating improvements, coaching leaders and helping teams deliver value at pace.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Improving Lab performance and productivity using strong data analysis.
  • Driving data quality and ensuring accurate, effective use of JIRA and JIRA Align.
  • Using metrics and insight to diagnose issues and inform targeted interventions.
  • Coaching and challenging Lab leaders to improve, accelerate and stabilise performance.
  • Maturing Lab ways of working and supporting planning, sequencing and flow of work.
  • Supporting and strengthening Lab cadence and Agile ceremonies.
  • Providing hands-on Agile expertise, guidance and coaching across teams.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in Agile Coaching or Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications).
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery metrics and evidence-based decision making.
  • Experience coaching and influencing senior leaders in Agile ways of working.
  • Confident using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence.
  • Ability to analyse data, spot trends and drive performance improvements.
  • Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to apply techniques like brainstorming, process flows and hypothesis setting.

Nice to Have

  • Agile certifications such as PSM I, PSM II, PK1 or similar.

Benefits & conditions

You'll be part of an organisation that genuinely values inclusion, innovation and continuous improvement. They're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can belong, grow and thrive - and they actively celebrate diversity in all its forms.

They've led the way on:

  • setting ambitious diversity targets
  • offering a menopause health package
  • launching a dedicated Working With Cancer initiative

They're also a Disability Confident employer, and reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.

About the company

Halifax - £500.00 - £550.00 per day Contract Posted by: Pontoon Posted: Friday, 28 November 2025 Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention., This is an exciting opportunity to coach, influence and shape Agile practices across a large, modern technology and change landscape - working in a Lab structure where collaboration, data-led decision making and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything.

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