JPMorgan Agility Senior Associate 

United States, Ohio, Columbus 

295669229

As an Agility Senior Associate inFirmwide Core Deposits, you will contribute to the team by guiding and supporting solution delivery teams in adopting and adapting agile practices throughout the product development lifecycle. Leveraging your advanced knowledge of agile principles you will facilitate group discussions, decision-making processes, and collaborative activities to build continuous improvement and high performance. Your expertise in coaching, communication, and leadership will enable you to effectively manage complex projects, foster a culture of innovation, and enable the successful delivery of high-quality solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Facilitates the adoption and adaptation of agile methodologies within teams and provide guidance, training, and support to propel continuous improvement and high performance
• Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
• Enables agile project delivery by facilitating the prioritization of tasks and managing resources to effectively address complex situations to achieve project goals
• Analyzes and interpret policies, identify key barriers, and apply your critical thinking skills to address challenges within the product development lifecycle
• Builds productive relationships amongst the team and follows through on commitments to gain trust and respect
• Leads and coaches the benefits of working in an agile manner, including agile practices, events and techniques to all employees within span of influence

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on guiding teams to adopt agile methodologies and practices
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices
• Demonstrate proficiency in facilitating group discussions, decision-making processes, and collaborative activities within teams to achieve product goals
• Showcase proficiency in agile delivery and agile approaches, with a developing ability to coach teams and strive for continuous improvement and high performance
• Ability to flex approach based on the needs of the team/organization
• Uses empathy to understand team dynamics and organizational boundaries/constraints; enables and ensures clear communication to help the Development team to meet its goal
• Ability to use and analyze data/organizational metrics to identify trends, demonstrate progress and identify opportunities for the team
• Ability to use facilitation skills to help unlock self-organization, autonomy and creativity in the team
• Solid and proven understanding of various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban; Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence
• Estimation and Planning skills to ensure the team has a healthy backlog
• Applies self-organization skills to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and conflict resolution

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Possess the business acumen required to ensure that goals, scope, and product domain knowledge is shared and understood by everyone on the team as well as possible
• Technical knowledge of preferred programming practices (CI/CD, ATDD, Continuous Testing, etc.) in order to lead the team towards the right solutions and improvements.
• Familiar with common development design patterns or technologies such as Service oriented environments, Microservices, APIs, etc.
• Knowledge of transformation strategic direction