Join our team to foster agile methodologies, encouraging a culture of innovation and high performance in a leading financial institution.

As an Agility Lead in Consumer & Community Banking, you will play a significant role as a champion for the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices within our teams. Leveraging your deep knowledge of product development methodologies and Agile principles, use your expert guidance, mentorship, and support to teams to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance. As a recognized subject matter expert, put your knowledge to use to work on complex issues, exercise considerable judgment, and make impactful decisions that shape the operational and business direction of your sub-function. Your leadership, communication, and coaching skills will be instrumental in empowering teams to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently and effectively, while continuously adapting to changing requirements and priorities.

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. Facilitates and guide the development teams in the understanding and application of Scrum and agile principles, practices and methodologies. Planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance. Organize and lead scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning sprint reviews and retrospectives. Monitor and track the team’s progress, ensuring adherence to agile metrics and providing regular reports to management on sprint outcomes and team performance. Act as liaison between the development team and product owner, ensuring clear communication and understanding of product backlog items. Help and coach to remove impediments to the team’s progress and lead the team members in self-organization and cross functionality. Analyze existing processes and practices, within teams and suggest changes to enhance team’s efficiency. Demonstrate ability to dive into details when applicable , ask probing questions, and sense when and how to take actions. Have experience creating dashboard with difference views, graphs, charts to track team’s progress, backlog health , metrics, performance optimization etc.

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. Excellent knowledge of scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, and backlog refinement). Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification. Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Including Scrum, Kanban and Lean. Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills. Proven ability to lead and coach teams in Agile adoption and continuous improvement. Expert with Agile tools and software, such as JIRA, confluence, and creating reports and dashboards. Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, in a fast-paced environment. Experience in fostering a collaborative team environment and resolving conflicts effectively.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Tech background and hands-on. Experience with JIRA Align. Presentation skills using MS PPT or other tools.