Urgent Position for Agility Lead- VP

Job Description

The focus of the Agility Lead is the continuous optimization of the team by removing impediments regardless of where they are in the organization. The Agility Lead protects the team from churn, drives velocity improvements on the team, lowers the team s defect density and promotes more frequent deployments. They work with the Product Owner to ensure a healthy backlog and appropriate prioritization of work. They work to increase the effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization through coaching, influencing and participating in Community of Practice activities.
• Facilitates scrum events including but not limited to daily scrum, refinement, planning, review, and retrospective
• Assists teams in resolving impediments regardless of where they are in the organization
• Builds productive relationships amongst the team and follows through on commitments to gain trust and respect
• Leads and coaches the benefits of working in an agile manner, including agile practices, events and techniques to all employees within span of influence
• Coaches the Product owner to ensure the team is aligned with the Product vision, Product Backlog, Sprint goals, and other necessary information to produce the desired outcomes
• Coach Product Owner to use the right processes to create a successful product by:
  • Defining product scope, guiding principles and roadmap
  • Understanding the customer, getting feedback to drive product development
  • Building and maintaining a healthy backlog
  • Organizing interactions with stakeholders
• Embraces the concept of continuous learning in own journey and drives in the team by:
  • Protecting the team from churn
  • Driving velocity improvements
  • Lowering defect density
  • Promoting more frequent deployments
• Assumes leadership role in the team and has shared accountability with the team on delivery and continuous improvements
• Utilizes estimation and planning skills to ensure the team has a healthy backlog
• Enables and ensures clear communication to help the team to meet its goal
• Helps team to celebrate smart failure and learn new ways to improve
• Applies self-organization skills to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, effective communication, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Works with other Agility Leads (via. Community of Practices) to increase the effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization
• 5+ years of experience as Agility Lead in an Agile development desired
• Demonstrated ability to act as Agility Lead and influence policy for up to 3 teams and/or work with newly formed teams who have additional complexity and ambiguity
• Knowledge of Scrum/Agile principles and application of it at scale
• Ability to flex approach based on the needs of the team/organization
• Uses empathy; understands team dynamics and organizational boundaries/constraints
• Ability to use and analyze data/organizational metrics to identify trends, demonstrate progress and identify opportunities for the team
• Ability to use facilitation skills to help unlock self-organization, autonomy and creativity in the team
• Ability to lead Design Thinking and Strategy Sessions
• Solid and proven understanding of various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban & XP
• Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Share Point
• Possess the business acumen required to ensure that goals, scope, and product domain knowledge is shared and understood by everyone on the team as well as possible
• Technical knowledge of preferred programming practices (CI/CD, ATDD, Continuous Testing, etc.) in order to lead the team towards the right solutions and improvements
• Familiar with common development design patterns or technologies such as Service oriented environments, Microservices, APIs, etc.
• Familiarity with customer-centered techniques including user research, UX and UI trends, design thinking, lean startup, customer journey and user story mapping
• Familiarity with end-to-end product concepts including brand management, marketing, prospecting, account opening, enrollment, fulfillment, and servicing
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Keyskills :
product visionaccount openingdesign patternsplanning skillsdesign thinkingbusiness acumenbrand managementagile development