Agile Coach

  • Full Time
  • Gauteng

MiWay Insurance Limited

What will you do?

The Agile Coach is responsible for enabling multiple delivery teams to improve flow, predictability, and outcomes. This role focuses on coaching teams to make better decisions using data, transparency, and experimentation rather than enforcing frameworks or rituals.
The Agile Coach acts as a role model, facilitator, and trusted advisor, guiding teams toward improved delivery while maintaining team ownership and accountability. 

What Success Looks Like

Teams make informed delivery decisions using data rather than opinion  
Improved flow, predictability, and transparency across teams
Teams demonstrate ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement  
Reduced reliance on jargon, ceremonies, and framework compliance

What will make you successful in this role?

Experience & Qualifications  

Two to four years of experience in an Agile Coach, Delivery Coach, or similar role  
Demonstrated experience supporting multiple teams simultaneously  
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification  
AI-related skills or experience are welcomed and considered a plus  

Skills and Capabilities

Strong capability in flow metrics and Kanban practices  
Confident working with numbers and quantitative delivery data  
Excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills  
Growth mindset with a willingness to learn and adapt 

Key Responsibilities: Flow, Metrics and Data

Use flow metrics to help teams understand and improve their delivery systems  
Read, interpret, and explain flow-based charts clearly and confidently  
Apply Monte Carlo simulations and probabilistic forecasting to support planning  
Encourage evidence-based decision-making over deterministic planning Ways of Working  
Operate in a framework-agnostic, outcome-focused manner  
Work comfortably with both Kanban and Scrum  
Facilitate conversations effectively without relying on Agile terminology  
Encourage experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement  
Facilitation, Influence & Stakeholder Engagement  
Facilitate team, cross-team, and large departmental meetings  
Create transparency and build trust with team members and stakeholders  
Engage stakeholders while keeping primary influence within the teams being coached  
Be direct when required and address issues constructively  
Support healthy conflict and apply conflict resolution techniques when needed 

Key Responsibilities: Team Coaching and Enablement

Coach and support multiple delivery teams concurrently (minimum of two teams)  
Guide teams to make their own delivery decisions rather than prescribing solutions  
Empower teams without coddling while maintaining accountability  
Conduct one-on-one coaching sessions with team members when needed  
Act as a role model for effective collaboration, decision-making, and continuous improvement

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careers.sanlamcloud.co.za

 

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