Head of Agile Practice

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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Equiniti

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

Finance • Enterprise • B2B

Equiniti is a leading provider of shareholder, pension, and remediation services, with significant operations in the UK, US, and globally. The company offers an array of services for individuals and organizations including share registration, investor relations advisory, employee benefits, retirement solutions, and customer management solutions. Equiniti specializes in transforming the retirement and pensions markets with advanced administration and technology solutions, as well as providing comprehensive business solutions like global payments and governance services. With strong capabilities in client portals and data solutions, Equiniti supports over 40 million shareholders, members, and customers worldwide, including a significant presence among the S&P and FTSE 100 companies.

📋 Description

• Define, maintain, and evolve Equiniti's Agile operating model, standards, frameworks, and ways of working • Act as the Centre of Excellence for Agile delivery across product lines and delivery teams • Champion Agile values, principles, and behaviours across the organisation • Lead the evolution and adoption of Agile 2.0 • Lead and develop the Agile Practitioner team • Establish learning pathways, coaching frameworks, communities of practice, and development programmes • Partner with leaders, RTEs, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams to improve Agile maturity, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes • Drive planning, execution, and continuous improvement practices to increase predictability, quality, and efficiency • Use delivery data, flow metrics, team health insights, and feedback to identify improvement opportunities • Lead initiatives to improve organisational effectiveness, reduce delivery friction, and enhance flow • Define and monitor measures of Agile effectiveness • Define and promote Agile governance frameworks providing transparency, accountability, and control • Improve delivery processes, tooling, and reporting • Partner with Product, Technology, Portfolio leaders, RTEs, and Scrum Masters on transformation and delivery excellence • Support the transition from traditional Agile frameworks to AI-enabled software delivery • Facilitate adoption of AI-enabled practices, workflows, and operating models • Identify barriers to change, drive continuous improvement, and embed sustainable ways of working

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading Agile practices, Agile Centres of Excellence, Agile transformations, or delivery excellence functions • Experience implementing and scaling Agile frameworks across multiple teams, programmes, or value streams • Experience embedding new ways of working across complex organisations • Track record of improving delivery effectiveness, predictability, quality, and team performance through Agile practices • Experience coaching and influencing leaders and delivery teams at all levels • Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and SAFe • Experience in product-led or customer-focused environments • Experience measuring Agile maturity, delivery effectiveness, and continuous improvement through data-driven insights • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills • Excellent facilitation, communication, and organisational development skills • Relevant Agile certification such as SAFe SPC, RTE, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or equivalent • Desirable: experience leading enterprise-scale Agile transformations • Desirable: experience implementing delivery metrics, dashboards, and improvement programmes • Desirable: knowledge of Product Operating Models and Value Stream organisations • Desirable: experience establishing Agile training and certification programmes • Desirable: experience working in regulated environments • Desirable: understanding of OKRs and outcome-based planning • Strong understanding of AI-assisted software delivery, agentic workflow design, prompt engineering, responsible AI practices, and coaching teams in AI-enabled ways of working

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity for all staff and applicants • Employment offer subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks