Join our Downer Professional Services team and play a key role in delivering complex defence and national security projects that safeguard Australia’s future.
Downer Professional Services comprises of three business units our Technical, Advisory, and Capability consulting practice, and Team Downer, which partners with CASG and NSSG as a major service provider to Defence. Together, we are a multi-disciplinary advisory and delivery partner of choice for clients across Defence and National Security.
About the Role
Downer Professional Services is seeking an experienced Agile Lead to support a major Defence Digital Group program. This role is responsible for coaching and empowering agile delivery teams, driving continuous improvement, and enabling the successful delivery of complex ICT capabilities within a large-scale government environment.
Working across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, you will play a key role in fostering agile maturity, improving delivery predictability, and supporting the achievement of critical business and operational outcomes.
What You'll Do
As the Agile Lead, you will guide teams in the adoption and continuous improvement of agile practices, helping to create high-performing and self-organising delivery environments. You will work closely with Product Owners, delivery teams, leadership and stakeholders to facilitate collaboration, transparency, and successful program outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Coach, mentor and support agile teams in the application of agile principles, practices and ways of working.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Program Increment (PI) Planning, iteration planning, reviews, retrospectives and team alignment sessions.
- Identify and remove delivery impediments, manage dependencies, and support effective flow of work.
- Develop and maintain delivery metrics and reporting to provide insights into team performance, predictability, flow and agile maturity.
- Foster collaboration across teams, stakeholders and governance forums to support successful program delivery.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement through retrospectives, action planning and outcome tracking.
- Support Product Owners and delivery teams with prioritisation, planning and delivery transparency.
- Drive effective communication and stakeholder engagement throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Contribute to organisational agile capability uplift through mentoring, coaching and Communities of Practice.