Agility Lead [Multiple Positions Available]

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Plano, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Agility Lead will drive continuous improvement across JPMC Enterprise Tool Chain (JET) product groups, assisting in the implementation of the transformation vision and strategy. This role involves mentoring and coaching Scrum Masters within JET Product Groups to foster collaboration, and facilitating scrum events for development teams. The Agility Lead will collaborate with product teams and product owners to implement agile practices and techniques for continuous improvement. They will identify opportunities to reduce waste, drive efficiencies, and improve the overall effectiveness of agile within product groups, while embracing continuous learning, protecting teams from churn, driving velocity improvements, lowering defect density, and promoting more frequent deployments.

Requirements

Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or related field of study plus 3 years of experience in the job offered or as Agility Lead, Computer Systems Analyst, Technology Analyst, Software Developer, or related occupation.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or related field of study plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or as Agility Lead, Computer Systems Analyst, Technology Analyst, Software Developer, or related occupation.
Three (3) years of experience with Agile coaching and methodologies.
Three (3) years of experience with software development project management and delivery.
Any amount of experience with product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, including initiation, planning, development and testing, followed by deployment operate and maintenance.
Any amount of experience with agile delivery and agile approaches, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and scaling frameworks such as Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies.
Any amount of experience with monitoring agility metrics and guiding teams through software development projects, ensuring deliverables adhere to established processes including creating scalable and autoscaling solutions, ensuring resilience, maintaining low response times, conducting performance testing, and incorporating comprehensive logging and alerting mechanisms while emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability.
Any amount of experience with engaging with and influencing stakeholders at various levels within the organization, guiding group discussions and decision-making processes within the domain context.
Any amount of experience with Behavioral Design Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD).
Any amount of experience with applying Scrum and Agile principles and practices in Product development.
Any amount of experience with programming practices including CI/CD, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, GitHub Actions, and JIRA Automation.
Any amount of experience with frameworks or patterns used in Continuous Testing.
Any amount of experience with development design patterns or technologies such as Service oriented environments, Microservices, or APIs.
Any amount of experience with public cloud such as AWS or Azure.
Any amount of experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning including Generative AI and Large Language Models.
Any amount of experience with orchestrating delivery pipelines for AI/ML initiatives.
Any amount of experience with Cloud infrastructure on Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure platforms.
Any amount of experience with translating business requirements into scalable, high-performance technical solutions.
Any amount of experience with managing containerized AI workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
Any amount of experience with Customer-centered techniques including user research, UX and UI trends, design thinking, lean startup, customer journey and user story mapping organization.
Any amount of experience with end to end product concepts including brand management, marketing, prospecting, account opening, enrollment, fulfillment, and servicing.
Any amount of experience with end to end product development concepts including risk, audit, controls, and legal and compliance.

Responsibilities

Drive continuous improvement across JPMC Enterprise Tool Chain (JET) product groups.
Assist in implementing transformation vision and strategy.
Mentor and coach Scrum Masters within JPMC Enterprise Tool Chain (JET) Product Groups to foster collaboration across teams.
Facilitate scrum events for the development teams, collaborating with the product team and product owners to implement agile practices and techniques required for continuous improvement.
Engage with the development teams, scrum masters, product teams, and product owners to coach agile practices and the events and techniques required for continuous improvement by the teams in an Agile product development organization.
Identify continuous improvement activities and opportunities to reduce waste, drive efficiencies, and improve the overall effectiveness of agile within the product groups.
Embrace the concept of continuous learning, protect the team from churn, drive velocity improvements, lower defect density, and promote more frequent deployments.