Agility Senior Associate

Join our team to foster agile methodologies, encouraging a culture of innovation and high performance in a leading financial institution.As an Agility Senior Associate in Consumer and Community Banking Division's Technology team, you will play a significant role as a champion for the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices within our teams. Leveraging your deep knowledge of product development methodologies and Agile principles, use your expert guidance, mentorship, and support to teams to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance. As a recognized subject matter expert, put your knowledge to use to work on complex issues, exercise considerable judgment, and make impactful decisions that shape the operational and business direction of your sub-function. Your leadership, communication, and coaching skills will be instrumental in empowering teams to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently and effectively, while continuously adapting to changing requirements and priorities.Job responsibilities:

Lead and coach teams to adopt and implement agile methodologies, and promote open communication and engagement among team members ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals

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

Embraces the concept of continuous learning in own journey and shared accountability with the team on delivery and continuous improvements

Enables and ensures clear communication to help the Development team to meet its goal

Helps team to celebrate smart failure and learn new ways to improve

Works with other Scrum Masters (via. Community of Practices) to increase the effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project management

Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Share Point

Estimation and Planning skills to ensure the team has a healthy backlog

Possess knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support for teams

Display 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

Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels within the organization, effectively guiding group discussions and decision-making processes within the domain context

Familiarity with customer-centered techniques including user research, UX and UI trends, design thinking, lean startup, customer journey and user story mapping.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications

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

Familiarity with end to end product concepts including brand management, marketing, prospecting, account opening, enrollment, fulfillment, and servicing.

Familiarity with end to end product development concepts including risk, audit, controls, and legal and compliance

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans