Agility Lead Manager

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 and community Banking , you will manage a team of Agility Leads to foster a culture of innovation and high performance. In addition to managing your team of Agility Leads, you will also serve as an Agility Lead for multiple development teams within Card. Your primary goal will be to enhance team effectiveness, quality, speed, and overall employee and client experience by reducing barriers and improving practices. While Agile methodology is a critical part of this role, it is secondary to achieving these overarching goals.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Agility Leads on how to effectively uplift and support their products
• Enable and uplift Card’s Agility Leads, making them more effective in driving improvements in the teams they support.
• Enable agility practices and ensure your aligned development teams operate efficiently. Collaborate closely with leadership, product, the development teams, and key partners to ensure alignment and consistent improvement within the teams, facilitating high-quality delivery.
• Partner with stakeholders and leaders in Product, Technology, Data, Design, and other key areas to assess opportunities and design solutions for holistic and long-term improvements across the portfolio
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding your teams to successfully implement agile practices across the organization
• Partner with Card leadership to define and drive the strategic roadmap for the adoption of agile methodologies, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Guide and support aligned development teams in adopting and implementing agile practices to achieve organizational goals
• Enable your aligned development teams’ delivery backlog and effective prioritization of work
• Utilize your communication and influence skills to remove impediments for the teams

• Drive continuous improvement for your aligned development teams to enable faster, higher quality, and smoother delivery

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project management
• Experience managing and developing individual contributors
• Familiarity within the Card portfolio and familiarity with how Card operates
• Possess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support
• 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

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a focus on team collaboration

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications
• Recommended skills include but are not limited to: agile delivery, business acumen, change management, continuous improvement, coaching, internal stakeholder management, strategic thinking, self-study, verbal communication, adaptability, and decision making