Are you passionate about guiding our organization towards success through the adoption of the agile principles and practices? FMO, the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, invites you to join us as a Principal Agile Coach. Click on the apply now button.

Your Role

FMO is strengthening its Agile Operating Model to ensure that technology delivery is predictable, effective and aligned with strategic priorities.

FMO operates in a dual delivery model, where Agile domains and teams operate alongside more traditional project-based delivery and governance.

To support this, we are looking for a Principal Agile Coach who plays a central role in designing, governing and continuously improving the Agile Operating Model, while ensuring alignment at the intersection with project-based delivery.

This role combines system-level design with hands-on enablement, ensuring that ways of working are not only defined but also adopted and effective in practice.

Your key responsibilities are:

• Evolve the Agile Operating Model across domains, in line with FMO’s organizational goals
• Define and maintain clear guardrails for ways of working and delivery
• Prepare decision-making for governance and leadership
• Identify and resolve recurring structural and cross-domain issues in close collaboration with (Senior) Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams
• Improve flow, predictability, and delivery performance across domains
• Use data and insights to highlight bottlenecks and improvement opportunities
• Ensure adoption of operating model changes in practice
• Enable effective collaboration and alignment between Product Owners, Scrum Masters, teams and leadership to address cross-domain challenges

Our Offer

• We offer meaningful and impactful work in an international work environment
• Gross yearly salary of between EUR 110K – 120K (including holiday allowance and 13th month), depending on seniority, years of experience and background.
• Premium free pension.
• 31 holidays.
• Option to work remotely abroad for up to 60 days in a rolling period of 12 months.
• Hybrid way of working (50/50).
• A 24/7 NS transport card and individual training budget.
• Our beautiful work premise is located 5 minutes’ walk from the station Laan van NOI in The Hague.

For more information, please visit our website Secondary Benefits - FMO

Your Team

As a Principal Agile Coach you will be closely working together with the ICT/FS Director, (Senior) Product Owners and Scrum Masters to continuously improve the (agile) way of working.

Your Background

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Relevant certification such as Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• At least 5 years of experience in leading Agile transformations and driving organizational change
• Experience working in complex organizational environments with multiple teams and stakeholders
• Proven ability to use data and insights to identify bottlenecks and drive improvement
• Experience in coaching leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams to adopt Agile practices
• Excellent command of the English language, both verbally and in writing.

Personal skills

• You are an energetic and proactive professional with the ability to lead and facilitate improvements in the Agile way of working at a system level. You combine strong analytical skills with a pragmatic mindset and can translate complex organizational challenges into clear, actionable improvements.
• You have a strong focus on delivering value through better flow, predictability, and collaboration, and know how to balance structure with flexibility. You are comfortable operating in a complex stakeholder environment and are able to influence without formal authority.
• With your strong coaching and influencing skills, you support leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams in improving collaboration and ways of working. You are not afraid to challenge the status quo and engage in constructive, sometimes difficult conversations when needed to drive meaningful change.
• You create an environment of continuous improvement, experimentation, and trust, and ensure that improvements are not only defined but also effectively adopted in practice.