IT Agile Governance Manager

***We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role***

***Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking an IT Agile Governance Manager. Candidate will be accountable for contributing to the Agile transformation across the enterprise. This is a leadership role that will drive operational success and continuous improvement around Agile methodologies.  This role requires experience in Agile frameworks with practical experience in an Agile role at both the program and team levels with demonstrated ability to adopt Agile principles, mindset, practices, and methodologies. This role requires previous people management and team leadership experience.  This role provides management and leadership and will drive the team to teach, mentor and advise teams, product owners, business stakeholders on agile practices and design strategies for delivery teams to improve and mature their use of Agile principles and practices.

Responsibilities:

• Drive efforts to guide and coach delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work.
• Directly manage a team of Scrum Masters deployed across several product teams and partner with managed service provider
• Hold Scrum masters accountable to their roles and responsibilities and create a governance structure to monitor performance.
• Partners with the group director and senior leaders across the organization to develop best practices and evolve Agile capabilities with the changing needs of the business.
• Be responsible for “maturing” Agile teams/squads.
• Provide support to the Product Owner and Delivery Team, and lead by example.
• Participate in and lead discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Drive a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
• Be responsible for identification and mitigation of project risks
• Participate in and lead regular assessments of Agile Maturity and use the results to guide teams to improved performance
• Drive internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation
• Manages a team

Qualifications:

• [Required] Understands Agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and the organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
• [Required] Experience with agile transformations, building Agile teams and implementing Agile
• [Required] Experience with setting and implementing Agile specific metrics and KPI’s
• [Required] Previous experience leading scrum masters and driving career development of direct reports
• [Required] Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (diverse team sizes, organizations, cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• [Required] Direct experience working with Scaled Agile (SAFe) organizations
• [Required] Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• [Required] Knowledge of other agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• [Required] The proven ability to be self-motivated and a self-starter
• [Required] Ability to work under minimal supervision
• [Required] Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• [Required] Strong servant leader mindset
• [Required] Assist with response to regulatory audits regarding process flows
• [Required] Experience in release planning and coordination at scale
• [Required] Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• [Required] Ability to review large amounts of data and analyze, spot trends and provide analysis and insights
• [Required] Experience consolidating data from multiple data sources
• [Required] Experience with Agile PLM tools like JIRA, Portfolio for JIRA
• [Required] Proven ability to work with toolsets including, but not limited to Jira, MS Project, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• [Required] Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and IT systems design
• [Required] Familiarity within a ticketing system such as ServiceNow

• [Required] Bachelor’s degree in information technology or 7+ years equivalent work experience
• [Required] Advanced knowledge of Agile/Scrum principles and practices
• [Required] Hands on experience in leading and managing agile teams
• [Required] Experience as a Scrum Master for a minimum of 5 years for a software development team that was applying Agile/Scrum principles and practices
• [Required] 5+ years of experience with JIRA
• [Required] Ability to anticipate issues based on experience to help the team avoid or resolve the issues
• [Preferred] Scrum Master Certified preferred
• [Preferred] PMP certified preferred