Agility Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

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Job Description

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 Commercial and Investment Banking, within the Digital and Platform Services team, 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
• Organize and lead scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Monitor and track the team's progress, ensuring adherence to agile metrics and providing regular reports to management on sprint outcomes and team performance.
• Act as liaison between the development team and product owner, ensuring clear communication and understanding of product backlog items.
• Help and coach to remove impediments to the team's progress and lead the team members in self-organization and cross functionality.
• Analyze existing processes and practices, within teams and suggest changes to enhance team's efficiency.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven 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
• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and advanced applied experience
• Advanced knowledge in project management/ agility lead experience. Understanding of project management and Agile/Scrum methodologies, tools and resources
• Experience setting up and skilled in Jira , Confluence , Sharepoint etc. Advanced Excel ( Pivot tables, validation rules , vlookup) and PowerPoint skills.
• Prefer knowledge and experience in querying - such as SQL , JIRA filters etc.
• Excellent knowledge of scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, and backlog refinement).
• PMP Certified, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Management consulting or internal experience within Banking and Financial services, and/or mortgage banking/home lending industry preferred
• Promote a flexible team environment that can handle changes with agility while maintaining focus on managing deadlines, organizing and prioritizing work and delivering value to the business

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

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.