Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

As an Agile Coach in our Performance Centre of Excellence, you will be instrumental in improving business performance by guiding teams to work strategically and effectively within an agile framework. You will deliver critical coaching to Delivery and Leadership teams, empowering them to improve performance within their teams and across delivery streams. You will collaborate with key stakeholders to identify and address challenges, enhancing overall performance delivery and promoting agile best practices.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Location: Auckland

Role Type: Permanent, Fulltime

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?

As an Agile Coach, you will:

• Embed a culture of continuous learning, empowerment, rapid experimentation, adaptability, and collaboration

• Guide and coach teams to follow the agility principles and practices that work best for the team, helping everyone understand the theory, practices, principles, and values of agility through servant leadership. This is achieved through;

  • Coaching team members on the facilitation of key ceremonies and role modelling best practice where helpful

  • Improving the flow of work

  • Enabling delivery and helping foster a strong team culture

• Support and coach the teams on agility, practices, frameworks, tools

• Support the creation and delivery of agility training and workshop material for use across ANZ

• Guide and coach teams to become self-organised

• Support teams to inspect, adapt, and self-assess to continuously improve delivery

• Improve transparency of work, processes, and impediments within teams and across Coes

• Facilitate the removal of impediments and coaching others to do the same

• Foster a safe and trusting environment where conflicts can be navigated in a healthy way without fear of blame

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Strong understanding of Agile values and principles and how they can be applied to technical and business teams

• Knowledge of underlying concepts such as transparency, inspection, adaptation, and theory of constraints etc

• Previous experience with scaling frameworks

• Strong coaching and mentoring skills to help guide teams and individuals to reflect and problem solve

• Ability to facilitate agile training workshops, ceremonies and any other meetings as requested

• Clear and empathetic communication skills that encourages trust and openness within teams

• Skilled in dealing with resistance in individuals and teams to understand the ‘why’ of agility

• Ability to create and utilise metrics and data to help guide conversations, decisions, and improvements

• Experience in engaging and working with stakeholders at all levels

• Adaptable approach when applying practices to suit different team dynamics, projects, CoE and organisational needs

• Previous experience of programmes or projects and how agile principles might apply to these

• Practical experience with key tools such as Jira, Confluence

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.  

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.    

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 81355.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

11/12/2024 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)