Agility Senior Associate

JPMC Candidate Experience page
Bengaluru, IN

Our Scrum Masters thrive in a collaborative environment, working with passionate teams to promote Agile and Lean frameworks for quality product delivery. They proactively solve problems and remove obstacles, ensuring teams can swiftly adapt to changes. We value diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving, fostering a culture that encourages teamwork and innovation. With support and mentorship, we empower self-directed growth and exploration. Join us and contribute your unique perspective to our dynamic team.

As an Agility Lead within our team, you will serve as a servant leader, facilitating clear communication between management and team members. You will embody the qualities of being open, approachable, and collaborative, thriving in an environment with passionate team members. Your proactive problem-solving skills will be crucial in promoting Agile and Lean frameworks to ensure quality product delivery and continuous improvement. Embracing agility as a practice, you will be responsible for removing obstacles that prevent the team from achieving their goals, while maintaining a flexible approach to adapt to changes swiftly. Our culture values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving, bringing together people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We encourage teamwork, big thinking, and risk-taking in a supportive, blame-free environment. You will have the autonomy to work on meaningful projects, with access to the support and mentorship necessary for personal and professional growth. We are eager to see the unique contributions you will bring to our team.


Job Responsibilities

  • Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
  • Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
  • Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvement events
  • Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization
  • Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clears impediments for the team
  • Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instills the same in the team(s) you coach

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong knowledge and adherence to core Agile values and principles
  • 10+ years’ experience with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in product development and delivery organization
  • Exposure to modern engineering practices like Unit Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration
  • Tool experience: JIRA, JIRA Align, Lucid spark and Confluence
  • A mindset of servant leadership
  • An Agile mindset: "An attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning, a belief that we can all improve over time, that our abilities are not fixed but evolve with effort." 
  • Expert with Agile and Scrum framework and its application in Product Development and delivery organization
  • Ability to coach and mentor ; Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
  • Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS
  • Leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s)

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skill

  • Sound understanding of Scaling frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban and XP
  • Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)
  • Experience in fintech and compliance industry
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