Job responsibilities
- Leads and coaches teams to adopt and implement agile methodologies, and promote open communication and engagement among team members ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals
- Uses advanced communication, facilitation, and presentation skills to manage and influence stakeholders while communicating organizational impediments to leadership
- Develops and implements 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
- Identifies trends and generates original ideas to contribute to the development of new policies and best practices within the discipline
- Schedules and manages the ceremonies required to ensure predictable and continual delivery by the teams you support
- Coaches the product owner to ensure the team is aligned with the product vision, product backlog, sprint goals, and other necessary information to produce the desired outcomes
- Understands the customer by getting feedback to drive product development and maintaining a healthy backlog
- Protects the team from churn by driving velocity improvements, lowering defect density, and promoting more frequent deployments
- Assumes an ownership role in the team and has shared accountability with the team on delivery and continuous improvements
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of 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
- Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Share Point
- Ability to use and analyze data/organizational metrics to identify trends, demonstrate progress and identify opportunities for the team and create dashboards
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Experience in handling multiple medium-sized teams
- Experience of delivering technology solutions in the financial services sector
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications
- Familiarity with identity and access management principles or experience within an access management organization
- Exposure to cloud technologies
- Exposure to data management technologies