About This Role
Being an Agile Coach at BAE Systems involves helping individuals, teams, and the wider organization understand, adopt, and embrace an Agile mindset. This role is crucial for guiding and mentoring teams to thrive in complex environments, ensuring adherence to Agile theory and practices, and maximizing value creation.
Responsibilities
- Help individuals, teams, and the wider organization to understand what it means to implement, adopt, and embrace an Agile mindset
- Guide, coach, and mentor teams and organizations to embrace Agile ways of working to help them thrive in a complex world
- Ensure that teams and organizations understand and adhere to Agile theory and practices
- Facilitate stakeholder collaboration, removing barriers between stakeholders and the team and/or organization
- Help everyone to understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work to maximize the value created by the team
- Be accountable for the team’s effectiveness, helping them perform at their highest level and supporting the process to enable successful value delivery
- Promote self-organization within the team, causing the removal of any impediments to the team’s progress, and facilitating the team’s events and ceremonies
- Support healthy team dynamics by creating psychologically safe environments where transparency and trust are catalysts for change and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Enthusiastic about Agile with a passion for Agile ways of working
- Communicative and personable, comfortable communicating with team members and stakeholders
- Situationally aware, able to utilize Emotional Intelligence to best effect
- A coach and a mentor, an active listener, able to use powerful questions and know when to switch between stances
- Facilitative, able to both lead and support the team
- Competent in conflict management and resolution, able to facilitate discussion and consider alternatives or different approaches
- Assertive, able to ensure Agile practices, values, and ways of working are adhered to, be a voice of reason and authority, and make tough calls where needed
- Focused on the delivery of value through the lens of team effectiveness, working with other stakeholders to maximize value delivery
- Seeking continual improvement, striving to be a high-performing team, continually looking for opportunities to learn new tools and techniques, whilst seizing opportunities to learn from experience
- Promoting team empowerment, encouraging and demanding self-organization from the team
- Promoting team transparency, fostering a culture of disclosure and transparency both within the team and to the wider business about development and progress to grow business trust
Benefits
- Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office
- 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
- Flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
- Dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career
- Company bonus scheme
- Welcome to join any/all of our Employee Resource groups covering everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing
Important Details
- Locations: London or Manchester
- Work format: hybrid working offered, with consideration for both full and part-time applicants
Security Clearance
- Due to the nature of our work, successful candidates for this role will be required to hold an active eDV before applying for this opportunity
About the Company
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber, and intelligence experts. They work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect, and understand complex data, enabling governments, nation states, armed forces, and commercial businesses to unlock digital advantage in demanding environments. The company prides itself on being a leader in the cyber defense industry, with Capabilities being the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing Engineering, Consulting, and Project Management teams that design and implement defense solutions and digital transformation projects. They have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to customers in the National Security sector.
