Agility Senior Associate

Join our dynamic team to advance agile methodologies, fostering innovation and high-quality solution delivery in a collaborative environment.

As an Agility Senior Associate in Commercial and Investment Bank's Global Sales Tech Team, 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
• Experience of leading agile teams both onshore and offshore across global locations
• Expertise, including best practices in standards methods and tools for Agile (JIRA, confluence)
• Experience with the agile software development framework, with a substantial experience in high pressure, time critical environments.
• Ability to demonstrate project management skillset including prioritization, technical and project risk assessment, estimation, project timelines, value-based change control etc.
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Effective communicator with technical audiences, able to present complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders in person and via status reports at all levels of seniority.
• Collaborative working mindset and able to communicate with empathy and influence others broadly within our area of responsibility
• Interacting with others with excellent people management skills, listening, motivating, observing, giving and receiving feedback helps individuals and team grow
• Ability to work independently, own issues to resolution and be self-motivated to achieve the best results for our business partners.