Agility Lead

Organization Description

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Employer Description

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

Job Description

Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We're excited to see what you'll bring to our team.

As an Agility Lead at JP Morgan within the Finance Technology team, you'll act as a servant leader for your team providing hands-on support and facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people. They're proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

Job responsibilities

• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
• Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team
• Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
• Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
• Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams appreciate them
• Teach systems thinking and servant leadership
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or BS/BA degree and advanced applied experience
• Highly desirable Scrum Master certifications (eg. PSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM)
• Expertise with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization
• Ability to coach and mentor
• Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
• Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)
• Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
• Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems
• Experience working with high-performing teams in complex program execution
• Proficiency in stakeholder management, risk management, dependency management, conflict resolution
• Proficient with JIRA
• Understand & teach AGILE Best Practices to Product Owners & AGILE Teams
• A clear understanding & usage of capacity planning vs. velocity to maintain roadmap tracking

Desirable qualifications/ skills/ capabilities:

• Knowledge of tools such as Confluence
• Familiarity of Financial Services or regulatory industry experience

About us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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