JPMorgan Agility Lead 

United Kingdom, Scotland 

508325163

As an Agility Lead, you'll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. You'll be open, approachable, collaborative enjoying working with passionate people. You'll be proactive in solving problems to help your team(s) succeed. You'll promote Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. You'll embrace agility as a practice and be responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals. You'll have a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes. Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We're excited to see what you'll bring to our team.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and coach teams to adopt and implement agile methodologies, and promote open communication and engagement among team members ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals
• Use advanced communication, facilitation, and presentation skills to manage and influence stakeholders while communicating organizational impediments to leadership
• Develop and implement short to mid-term operational and transformation plans, prioritize tasks and manage resources to achieve product goals in a timely and efficient manner through the utilization of metrics and evidence-based decisions
• Identify trends and generate original ideas to contribute to the development of new policies and best practices within the discipline
• Work with the Product Owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
• Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal Training experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project management
• Possess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support for teams
• Display advanced knowledge of agile delivery and multiple agile approaches, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and scaling frameworks, monitoring agility metrics; with the ability to guide teams through complex projects, emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels within the organization, effectively guiding group discussions and decision-making processes within the domain context
• Ability to coach, mentor, collaborate with, and influence people at various levels
• Working knowledge of Jira
• Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
• Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies
• Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)