Agility Lead - Vice President

Agility Lead - Vice President

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Finance. You have found the right team.

As a Agility Lead professional in our Corporate sector, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm

Your mission will be to help the Planning & Analysis Innovation and Transformation team of innovators, product owners, product managers, agility leads and technologists unlock their agile potential to deliver next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run. Your expertise in various domains including lean, culture, collaboration, facilitation, process improvement and a focus on delivering value will be counted on to set direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embracing leading-edge technologies and Agile Frameworks inspires your team to follow suit.  

Job Responsibilities:

• Help the team identify impediments and suggest ways to remove dependencies. Foster strategic relationships within the team, program and wider organization. 
• Facilitating, evaluating and guiding Scrum team and multi team events. Mentor the team on agile values, principles, and practices. 
• Help guide the team on how to use Agile to delight customers. Guiding the team on how to become self-organizing. 
• Support the team in their continuous improvement journey. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. 
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. 
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example. 
• Track and socialize metrics that help the team learn and grow through continuous improvement. Help identify educational opportunities for the team and their stakeholders and partner with the business agility coaching team to offer that training. Connect with other Agile and training orgs within the firm to share ideas and collaborate where possible. 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience as an Agility Lead / ScrumMaster for at least 3 years that was diligently applying agile principles, practices, and theory.   
• Scrum Alliance CSM certification or Scrum.org PSM I or SAFe SSM.
• Understanding of major agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum @ Scale) and 3 or more years’ experience in at least 1 framework 
• Experience using JIRA
• Good skills and knowledge of lean, servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency. 
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques (example: scrum, Kanban, XP, story mapping, example mapping, transformation plans, operating models, scaled agile frameworks).  

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience is playing the Agile Guide, ScrumMaster or RTE role in a SAFe program. SAFe SA, SSM, LeSS practitioner, or other Scaling certificate/experience.
• Scrum Alliance ACSM or CSP-SM or Scrum.org PSM II or PSM III. Product Owner Certification such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM or PSPO. 
• Awareness or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Mobbing, etc. 
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.