Agile Coach

The job profile for this position is Agile Coaching Advisor, which is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

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About Cigna

Let us tell you a little more about us. Cigna exists to improve lives. Together, with our 74,000 employees worldwide that service Cigna, Express Scripts, and other affiliate customers, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions.

We are going through an exciting period of expansion; at the center of our International Health division’s ambitious growth strategy, we are currently working towards a multi-year effort to implement a consistent digital strategy for the international markets.

About the Job

We are on a continuous journey towards better ways of working, focused on delivering better value to our customers and shareholders, sooner, safer, and with happier colleagues. We are expanding our agile teams and are looking for an experienced Agile Coach to join the Agile Centre of Enablement (ACoE). This role is critical to guiding and building agile capabilities across the organization, ensuring teams can maximize the value delivered and transition smoothly to agile methodologies.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a team that is going from strength to strength, building and shaping more customer-centric ways of working across our teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands‑on coaching to teams and individuals, helping them to understand and excel in agile practices.
• Facilitate the adoption of agile frameworks and methodologies across the organization.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospectives and feedback loops.
• Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and coaching engagements to build agile capabilities.
• Encourage the use of metrics and data‑driven decision‑making to optimize delivery.
• Promote a customer‑centric mindset within teams.
• Assist with economic decision‑making and facilitate capability and feature estimation.
• Advocate for lean thinking and systems thinking in agile practices.
• Support the transition from traditional project management to agile methodologies across the enterprise.
• Foster Lean‑Agile learning and provide necessary training to kick off and maintain the transformation.
• Coach leadership to lead by example and connect them to the voices of employees and suppliers.
• For clarity, this is not a team level (Scrum Master) coaching role.

Required Skills & Experience

Why Should You Join Cigna?

You will get the chance to work across our international organization and truly influence the growth of a product mindset.

We are constantly investing in, improving, and innovating our global technology stack. Right now, we are investing in Cloud, AI & ML, as well as working heavily with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

FLEXIBILITY – We are a truly flexible business. We offer remote / home working as well as flexible start / finish times. We pride ourselves on being able to offer a true work / life balance for all of our employees.

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