Agile Coach (FTC)
RWSJob Purpose
About RWS
RWS is a global leader in content, translation, and intellectual property services. With more than 60 years of experience, RWS helps the world’s top brands grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. The company combines proprietary technology with deep human expertise to deliver high-quality, compliant, and scalable solutions across industries such as life sciences, technology, finance, and legal.
About Propylon
Propylon is a company within the RWS group, focused on delivering innovative solutions that simplify complex legal workflows and connect people with the law. The Propylon team works to understand business challenges, design practical technical solutions, and solve problems while embracing change. The company has consistently been recognised as one of the “Great Places To Work” in Ireland (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024), reflecting a culture of learning, growth, and employee development.
Working at Propylon allows employees to combine the entrepreneurial, innovation-driven environment of a smaller company with the global scale, resources, and reach of RWS, contributing to RWS’s mission of unlocking understanding across languages and industries.
Job Purpose
Are you an Agile Coach seeking an opportunity to guide, mentor, and transform an organization as it embarks on its Agile transformation journey? Are you interested in joining an innovative, software solutions Business, dedicated to driving digital transformation?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Agile Coach to join our team and play a key role in shaping and embedding Agile principles across the Propylon Government Solutions teams. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Tech Leads, Business Analysts, and Project Managers to build a culture grounded in collaboration, transparency, and customer focused delivery. Your expertise will empower teams to interpret Agile metrics effectively, enhance performance, and stay aligned with our strategic objectives.
Job Overview
Responsibilities:
- Introduce Agile methodologies and implement agility in the project delivery processes using Scrum
- Coach and Mentor Tech Leads, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Agile teams across frameworks like Scrum and Kanban to enhance release planning, Agile ceremonies, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices
- Deliver Agile/Scrum training and reinforce understanding of values, principles, and practices.
- Support the coaching and training of Tech Leads, Project Managers and Business Analysts to achieve the required Scrum certifications.
- Facilitate Agile Ceremonies by leading retrospectives, workshops, and planning sessions that spark insight and drive improvement.
- Shift focus from task completion to delivering long-term customer value.
- Foster an environment where experimentation, open dialogue, and servant leadership thrive.
- Help develop servant leadership and enable high-performing teams.
- Empower Product Owners through guiding backlog prioritisation and partner engagement for maximum impact, ensuring backlogs reflect customer and business value.
- Facilitate Estimation Workshops and Increment Planning, ensuring effective coordination and alignment during workshops and planning sessions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Project Management, Computer Science, Information Technology), or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years in Agile environments, including 3+ years as an Agile Coach.
- Deep expertise in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
- Proven experience leading Agile transformations and coaching distributed teams.
- Strong coaching, facilitation, communication and conflict resolution skills.
- Proficiency in Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
- Solid understanding of software development, DevOps, and CI/CD
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven decision-making capabilities.
Nice to haves:
- CSM, PSM, SAFe or ICP certifications.
- Experience with scaling frameworks (SAFe, LeSS)
- Experience with AI driven practices within established frameworks that enable teams to incorporate data analytics and predictive modelling into everyday Agile ceremonies and delivery cycles.
Personal Attributes:
- Wants to be part of a team that is committed to delivering high quality innovative products.
- Wants to be part of a culture that is committed to sharing and enhancing the knowledge of the wider team supporting team wide learning and success
- Have a curious mindset – about what you do, the technology you use and how you connect with others to deliver products that we are proud to deliver to our clients.
Life at RWS
Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS.
Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.
In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.
RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.
RWS Values
Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.
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