JPMorgan Agility Lead - Mumbai 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

466665408

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
• Facilitate groups of 30 or more and coach multiple teams across the product
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts. Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team
• Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
• Coach product owners in the creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning. Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams appreciate them
• Teach systems thinking and servant leadership. 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

• 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
• Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
• Sound understanding of Scaling frameworks such as LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, XP
• Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s)
• Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies
• Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems