FinXL is a market-leading professional services organisation with more than 1200 consultants deployed on client sites across Australia and New Zealand.

At present, an outstanding opportunity exists for an Agile Coach to play a crucial role on a large-scale initiative at our client site; a large, well-regarded organisation in the energy sector.


Your key duties and responsibilities will encompass the following:

• Work with project teams to analyse current systems and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices
• Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met
• Lead agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders
• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them
• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices

Key Accountabilities:

• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching
• Coach senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down
• Effectively communicate agile principles and practices(SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) and overall operating model across the organization
• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across project teams and within the Agile Transformation team to measure OKRs
• Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met
• Keep an objective perspective on issues and troubleshoot by applying agile principles
• Hold stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams to review project status
• Support teams in determining the resource allocation to maintain agile practices and ensure smooth project delivery
• Prepare and facilitate key agile sessions e.g. Big Room Planning, change workshops, stand-ups, sprint planning etc.
• Create and execute agile transformation project deliverables including communications plans, agile training plan and materials, delivery toolkits, readiness checklists and adoption plans
• Work closely with the Head of Transformation designing the new ways of working

• Take on other key tasks to support business pressures/capacity e.g. scrum master

Skills, Competencies and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) and Lean
• Can showcase examples of implementing agile and lean techniques in different cultures and environments
• Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity
• Strong leader, educator, and coach
• An excellent communicator and motivator
• Structured analytical skills
• Change/cultural leadership
• Flexible and adaptable, able to work in ambiguous situations and provide structure to drive outcomes and course correct when needed
• Solution oriented with a positive 'can do' attitude and shares knowledge while building capabilities

• Proficient in Jira and Confluence and supporting collaboration tools
• Proficient in Microsoft O365

Education or Qualifications:

• Certified Scrum Master or SAFe Agile certified
• Lean Six Sigma
• Relevant tertiary qualification, in IT or business

PLEASE NOTE: Candidate screening will commence week beginning January 10th 2022