Join Banking Payments as an Agility Lead Manager, where you will manage a team of Agility Leads to foster a culture of innovation and high performance. In addition to managing your team of Agility Leads, you will also serve as an Agility Lead for multiple development teams within Banking Payments. Your primary goal will be to enhance team effectiveness, quality, speed, and overall employee and client experience by reducing barriers and improving practices. While Agile methodology is a critical part of this role, it is secondary to achieving these overarching goals.

As an Agility Lead Manager in Banking Payments, you will drive three key responsibilities: managing a team of Agility Leads, serving as an Agility Lead for multiple development teams, and driving multi-product performance improvement efforts.

Team Management: Enable and uplift Banking Payments’ Agility Leads, making them more effective in driving improvements in the teams they support. Through your leadership, you will motivate them to drive continuous improvement while empowering them to enhance delivery processes and productivity through effective collaboration and innovation.Agility Lead: Be responsible for agility practices and enabling your aligned development teams to operate efficiently. Work closely with leadership, product, the development teams, and key partners to ensure alignment and consistent improvement within the teams, enabling the high quality delivery.Performance Improvement: Partner with stakeholders and leaders in Product, Technology, Data, Design, and other key areas to assess opportunities and design solutions for holistic and long-term improvements across the portfolio.

Job Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of Agility Leads on how to effectively uplift and support their products Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding your teams to successfully implement agile practices across the organizationPartner with Banking Payments leadership to define and drive the strategic roadmap for the adoption of agile methodologies, ensuring alignment with business objectivesGuide and support aligned development teams in adopting and implementing agile practices to achieve organizational goalsEnable your aligned development teams’ delivery backlog and effective prioritization of workUtilize your communication and influence skills to remove impediments for the teamsDrive continuous improvement for your aligned development teams to enable faster, higher quality, and smoother delivery

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills 

6+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project managementExperience managing and developing individual contributorsFamiliarity within the Banking Payments portfolio and familiarity with how Connected Commerce operatesPossess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and supportDisplay advanced 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 adaptabilityExcellent communication and interpersonal skills with a focus on team collaboration

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills 

Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certificationsRecommended skills include but are not limited to: agile delivery, business acumen, change management, continuous improvement, coaching, internal stakeholder management, strategic thinking, self-study, verbal communication, adaptability, and decision making