Senior Vice President, Agile Coach

BNY External Career Site • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide. Recognized as a top destination for innovators and champions of inclusion, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary. We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Agile Coach to join our Agile team. This role is located in Pittsburgh.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10-12 years of experience providing consulting advice to senior IT and business management; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile principles, practices, frameworks, and methods, including Scaled Agile Frameworks, Kanban, Scrum, and Lean.
• Expertise in cross-functional team leadership, coaching and mentoring approaches, effective facilitation and teaching methods, and conflict resolution.
• Ability to drive decisions and resolve conflicts across multiple parties, with strong problem-solving skills and experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity.
• Experience with Apptio and Jira is a plus, supporting effective financial and project management within agile environments.
• Proven ability to coach platform and group leadership and teams to adopt agile mindsets and leverage data-driven metrics to continuously improve delivery, manage dependencies, and align work to OKRs.
• Skilled in facilitating agile ceremonies, supporting effective use of tools like Jira and TPro, and collaborating with stakeholders to provide actionable insights that optimize team performance and workflow.
• Communicate regularly with senior leadership to provide insights on how the Platform, Group, and Pods are progressing in mindset, culture, and effectiveness, using data-driven metrics to highlight improvements and areas for growth.

Responsibilities

• Help teams across lines of business adopt and improve Agile methods and practices to solve complex business improvement problems.
• Operate at an enterprise level to solve systematic problems in a structured manner and propose long-term strategy roadmaps across the entire line of business before pilot projects.
• Serve as a servant leader and mentor, supporting and evangelizing best practices for Agile and ways of working without being part of the scrum team.
• Facilitate and conduct trainings and workshops at lines of business and enterprise level, helping teams measure success through metrics and improve current practices by providing recommendations and best practices.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation
• Benefits and wellbeing programs
• Access to flexible global resources and tools
• Focus on health and personal resilience
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees