Principal Learning Specialist/Trainer (Agile/lean)
Location: London,hybrid
Your Role:
An Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC) or willing to work towards you will deliver Scaled Agile and AI-enabled learning, coaching and advisory services, empowering individuals, teams and leaders to apply modern ways of working, drive continuous improvement and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Delivering programmes and learning experiences
- Deliver across the Agile and Lean portfolio in classroom, virtual and blended formats, from foundation audiences new to Agile and Lean through to experienced practitioners, coaches and leaders.
- Design and develop bespoke training courses to meet learner, client and business needs.
- Act as the client advisor for SAFe offerings at QA – through identifying opportunities during learning delivery for what clients need and beyond the classroom supporting them to identify solutions.
- Partner with key Account Managers to identify current challenges for clients, and how SAFe can support them in addressing these challenges.
- Ability to work shoulder-to-shoulder with clients to implement SAFe practices tailored to client needs. This should range from the implementation of PI Planning to ongoing maturity increases in practices such as Lean Portfolio and Product Management.
- Run experiential, hands-on sessions built around simulations, workshops, real data and live problem-solving, so learners leave able to apply the practice and not just recite it.
- Adapt your pitch and pace to mixed audiences and experience levels, holding a clear line on principles while staying flexible on the path.
Scaled Agile craft
- Teach Scaled Agile (SAFe) with genuine depth, including SAFe principles, value stream mapping, PI Planning, Lean Portfolio Management, Product Management and the learner journey from SAFe Agilist to SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager – as part of the Expert SAFe series.
- Demonstrate a keen-ness and awareness of changes to the framework – including, but not limited to, AI-Native SAFe and the Advanced SPC learner journey. This includes participation as an active member of the community in places such as SAFe Connect, or SAFe themed meetups.
- Teach the framework not for blind adherence but for outcome-focussed delivery to really provide first class learning and coaching experiences to clients.
- Cover scaling with authority, including awareness of SAFe, LeSS and Nexus, PI and big-room planning facilitation at department or organisation level, the design and launch of Agile Release Trains and value streams, and Lean Portfolio Management.
AI fluency and modern practice
- Model current, working AI practice across the ladder, from everyday use up to building and governing tools, because this is where credibility is won or lost.
- Use AI fluently for day-to-day delivery support such as drafting and summarising, and to augment delivery by analysing flow data and designing scenarios, including augmented test scenario design.
- Orchestrate AI live in delivery and facilitation, synthesising in real time, and critically evaluate and govern AI outputs in client contexts so adoption stays responsible.
- Identify opportunities to integrate AI into ways of working, use vibe coding to build working prototypes and tools, and build reusable AI agents that scale your delivery and coaching impact.
- Help define responsible-AI standards and governance for the practice, treating ethics and governance as a first-class topic rather than a footnote.
Your Experience:
- Relevant certifications, SAFe (SPC or willing to work towards ASPC)
- Genuine, current AI fluency that is practical rather than theoretical. You use AI across delivery, you have built tools or agents, you understand vibe coding, and you can govern AI outputs responsibly in a client context.
- Deep, hands-on SAFe expertise.
- Proven training, teaching or facilitation experience with adult and professional learners, and the ability to run experiential, hands-on sessions rather than lecture.
- A track record of thought leadership through publishing, speaking at events, webinars or external recognition.
- Credibility delivering coaching and advisory for clients, including team and leadership coaching, workshop design, health checks and transformation advisory, and not only teaching open courses.
- Excellent facilitation, influencing and stakeholder skills, able to read a room, work with resistance and influence without formal authority.
Wellbeing & benefits
Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why we offer benefits designed to help you recharge and thrive, including:
- 27 days Annual Leave (4 days used for the festive closure) plus Bank Holidays
- Holiday Buying scheme
- Medicash plan, Wellhub, Cycle to Work scheme
- Private Medical Insurance at corporate rates
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Discounts Benefit Hub
- 3 Development days
- 2 Charity days per year
- Pension Scheme
- Early Friday Finish at 4pm
Personal growth
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!
You’ll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you’ll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Orperhaps you’d like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.
Our people
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual orientation, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the different perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We’re proud of the progress we’ve achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee that all applicants with a disability who meet the role criteria will progress to the next stage of the process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
A little about QA
At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners in the last 3 years.
Our Mission
We teach the critical AI, technology, digital and Human skills needed to transform and succeed in a changing world.We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solutions draw from deep expertise across Apprenticeships, Instructor-led training, Self-paced Learning and Blended Learning.
You can find out more about us at https://www.qa.com/about/careers/
