What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agility Senior Associate position at JPMorgan Chase?
Join our dynamic team to advance agile methodologies, fostering innovation and high-quality solution delivery in a collaborative environment.
As an Agility Senior Associate in Corporate Sector, you will contribute to the team by guiding and supporting solution delivery teams in adopting and adapting agile practices throughout the product development lifecycle. Leveraging your advanced knowledge of agile principles you will facilitate group discussions, decision-making processes, and collaborative activities to build continuous improvement and high performance. Your expertise in coaching, communication, and leadership will enable you to effectively manage complex projects, foster a culture of innovation, and enable the successful delivery of high-quality solutions.
Job responsibilities
- Facilitate the adoption and adaptation of agile methodologies within teams and provide guidance, training, and support to propel continuous improvement and high performance
- Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
- Enable agile project delivery by facilitating the prioritization of tasks and managing resources to effectively address complex situations to achieve project goals
- Analyze and interpret policies, identify key barriers, and apply your critical thinking skills to address challenges within the product development lifecycle
- Utilize JIRA in an Agile technology environment
- Provide and model advanced agile coaching competencies to elevate and inspire others to develop their own coaching competencies
- Guide members of the organization to build agile mindsets and thrive in an agile environment
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Identify impediments and discover ways to remove dependencies for the organization
- Support leadership in a strategic agile coaching role including educating team on agile ways of working
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 3 years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on guiding teams to adopt agile methodologies and practices
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices
- Demonstrate proficiency in facilitating group discussions, decision-making processes, and collaborative activities within teams to achieve product goals
- Showcase proficiency in agile delivery and agile approaches, with a developing ability to coach teams and strive for continuous improvement and high performance
- 5 plus years supporting leadership in a strategic agile coaching role applying Agile principles, practices and theory
- Strong proficiency in using Jira for agile product management, including configuring boards, tracking progress, and generating reports to support team performance and transparency
- Understanding of major agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS) and 3 plus years’ experience in one framework
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and guide teams along with fostering a high performing agile environment
- Proficient with JIRA
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Agile Coaching Certification (CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM ) or Professional Coaching Certification (ICF-ACC, ICF-PCC or ICF-MCC)
- Proficiency in using key tools (JIRA, MS Teams, and SharePoint) to facilitate communication, collaboration and product management within agile teams
- Agility Experience in a large technology environment
