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# Agile Chapter lead

- **Company:** Yorkshire Building Society
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Encodings
- **Published:** July 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=55ac82ae8d9735b6

## About the Role

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.

## Description

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.


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