Yorkshire Building Society
Agile Chapter lead
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Agile Chapter Lead
Shape how agile works in Yorkshire Building Society. This is a strategic leadership role combining agile framework ownership, coaching capability, and organisational transformation, with strong executive influence. You’ll define how agile operates in practice—balancing pace, control, and outcomes across the enterprise.
About the Role
The Chapter Lead – Agile is accountable for defining and embedding the enterprise agile operating model, standards, and practices, ensuring effective and scalable agile delivery across the organisation.
- Own and evolve the enterprise agile framework, playbooks, tooling, and delivery patterns, ensuring they are practical, proportionate, and aligned to a regulated environment.
- Use flow metrics, health indicators, and delivery insight to inform prioritisation, remove systemic blockers, and improve delivery performance and team effectiveness.
- Lead cross-functional alignment between agile delivery, governance, risk, and compliance to ensure agile practices integrate effectively with control, audit, and regulatory requirements.
About You
You are a senior agile leader with experience shaping agile at enterprise scale, able to balance practical delivery with governance, assurance, and organisational constraints.
- Significant experience leading agile capability, frameworks, and coaching communities across large, complex change environments.
- Strong technical capability in agile methods, flow-based metrics, scaled delivery models, and embedding agile ways of working within regulated organisations.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders to adopt effective agile behaviours, remove blockers, and improve delivery outcomes in complex, multi-team environments.
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About Us
At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
- Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.
- Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.
- Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.
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About Our Benefits
We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:
- Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
- Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals, we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
- Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up to 11% into your YBS pension.
- Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
- My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality, and health discounts.
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If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click "apply now" to send us your application.
Want More Information?
If you have any questions about this role, please contact Tazafia Mahmood on tmahmood@ybs.co.uk
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