JPMorgan Agility Senior Associate 

United States, Texas, Plano 

93956057

As an Agility Senior Associate in Consumer and Community Banking, Debit Technology space, 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
• Analyze and interpret policies, identify key barriers, and apply your critical thinking skills to address challenges within the product development lifecycle

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
• Demonstrated ability to act as Agility Lead and influence policy for up to 3 teams and/or work with newly formed teams who have additional complexity and ambiguity
• Knowledge of Scrum/Agile principles and application of it at scale
• Solid and proven understanding of various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban & XP
• Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Share Point
• 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.
• Familiarity with customer-centered techniques including user research, UX and UI trends, design thinking, lean startup, customer journey and user story mapping

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with end-to-end product concepts including brand management, marketing, prospecting, account opening, enrollment, fulfillment, and servicing
• Ability to use facilitation skills to help unlock self-organization, autonomy and creativity in the team
• Ability to lead Design Thinking and Strategy Sessions