Sr. Associate Director, Delivery Management

• Builds Agile Team capability across new ways of working.
• Leads on the adoption of agile (quarterly) prioritisation, development of roadmaps aligned to OKRs, and adherence to workflows across Capabilities, Epics, and Features
• Champions use of usability reviews, customer journey mapping, innovation and balancing of activity across delivery horizons – e.g., enabling innovation sprints.
• Supports a move towards efficient and effective DevSecOps development practices with incremental releases, identifying and resolving impediments to organisational-wide ways of working.
• Supports establishment and refinement of Value Stream / Sub-Value Stream ceremonies: PI planning; Inspect and Adapt; Scrum of Scrums; PO syncs, and Agile Team Ceremonies (Stand ups; Sprint Planning; Retros; and Demos).
• Coaching key roles on their responsibilities, advising leadership on forum cadence and meeting techniques, and defining inputs and artefacts.
• Supports the structuring of Agile Teams and Sub-Value Streams according to design patterns – advising on required roles to form effective cross-functional teams. Identifying low-velocity teams and identifying issue causes, highlighting solutions to Sub-Value Stream leadership
• Drives sharing of best practice through asset creation, and participation in cross-Value Stream Agile Forums to disseminate learnings.
• Maximises effectiveness of the Scrum Master population by facilitating coaching and training sessions, supporting community building, and ensuring effective on-boarding
• Provides guidance, technical expertise, and innovation across all aspects of areas of responsibility
• Ensures ongoing training and models to communicate and reinforce Agile concepts, including ongoing assessment and identification of areas of improvement for teams.
  

Requirements

• Comprehensive understanding of products, services and underlying processes for their Sub-Value Stream and wider HSBC.
• Comprehensive knowledge on coaching methodologies and Agile ways of working
• Comprehensive knowledge and extended experience in providing decisions, technical expertise and innovation across all aspects of areas of responsibility and unlocking business agility.