Vice President - Agile Engineering Lead

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Job Description Job Title Vice President - Agile Engineering Lead Location Pune, India Role Description About DWS Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures - but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change. Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment. Team / division overview The Chief Operating Office (COO) , CTO DWS Tech Division is a key enabler for DWS and is integral to the future success of the company by delivering world-class services across a set of key functions. It covers essential Technology and Operations capabilities, and aims to deliver a platform which is efficient, scalable, resilient and agile. What we ll offer you As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you ll enjoy, Best in class leave policy. Gender neutral parental leaves 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral) Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents Accident and Term life Insurance Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above Your key responsibilities As a Agile lead, you would be responsible to facilitate and drive the group of agile leads and scrum master in implementing the agile best practices across multiple verticals. You will be accountable for one area and guide other areas for best practices, all the scrum ceremonies and promote the agile values within the team. You would coach the team to become self-organizing, build a culture of accountability, ownership and high performance. Key Responsibilities Facilitate scrum events - stand ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives. Collaborate with product owners, developers and stakeholders to achieve the team goals in iterative way. Coach the team as required and ensure an effective conflict resolution. Drive retrospective session with data to bring in required process improvements. Bring the transparency with regular communication to all the stakeholders. Your skills and experience Skills You ll Need Must Have Overall experience of 10+ years with at 5+ years in the role of scrum master. Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs etc). Hands on with JIRA, confluence. Excellent communication and mentoring skills. Desirable skills that will help you excel Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs etc.) Prior experience as a developer or team lead. Educational Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technology science Technology certifications from any industry leading cloud providers How we ll support you Training and development to help you excel in your career. Coaching and support from experts in your team. A culture of continuous learning to aid progression. A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.