JPMorgan Agility Senior Associate - Athens 

Greece, Attica, Athens 

869583079

As an Agility Senior Associate within the
Equities Trading Technology Organization,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

• Facilitate the adoption and adaptation of agile methodologies within teams and provide guidance, training, and support to propel continuous improvement and high performance.
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.
• Enable agile project delivery by facilitating the prioritization of tasks and managing resources to effectively address complex situations to achieve project goals.
• Analyse and interpret policies, identify key barriers, and apply your critical thinking skills to address challenges within the product development lifecycle.
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership, clear impediments for the team.
• Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instil the same in the team(s) you coach.
• Work with product owners in maintenance of the product backlog.
• Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams utilise them.
• Work closely with Product Management and be able to translate Product requirements to projects.
• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward product goals.
• Compile and maintain data-driven tooling and reporting.

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.
• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience; Scrum Master certification e.g. CSM or PSM
• An Agile mindset .Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, Scrum
• Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)
• Forward looking and problem recognition and solving capabilities
• Proficient in market leading applications, Microsoft, Jira

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of the financial industry will be considered a plus.
• Software Engineering background will be considered a plus.