Agile Coach

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Coach leaders and stakeholders in servant leadership, empowerment, decision‑rights clarity, and psychological safety.
• Provide one‑on‑one leadership coaching to embed agile mindsets at senior levels, mirroring enterprise‑level coaching expectations.
• Facilitate alignment workshops to clarify responsibilities across Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Tech Leads, and business stakeholders, ensuring clear interfaces and operating boundaries.
• Support teams in adopting agile frameworks and role expectations as seen in industry job descriptions (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.)
• Develop and execute change adoption plans, including communications, training, reinforcement mechanisms, and change‑readiness assessment.
• Guide teams and leaders through transformation, consistent with enterprise Agile change‑management expectations.
• Align existing governance structures, forums, artefacts, and decision points to the bank’s agile delivery cadence—ensuring regulated‑environment obligations (auditability, traceability, risk) are preserved.
• Support agile ceremonies and cross‑team cadences similar to those defined in multi‑squad agile roles
• Facilitate effective retrospectives across squads, fostering continuous learning and operational excellence
• Track and analyse delivery metrics to support empirical improvement (e.g., cycle time, lead time, DORA metrics).
• Act as a neutral facilitator to surface and resolve cross‑functional friction, improving collaboration between technology, risk, compliance, and business teams.

Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, media, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.

Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.

ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.

Apply today to become part of Hodge’s mission to make life better for customers and society in the moments that matter