Senior Manager, Agile Program Lead

Company: Capital One
Location: Harrisonburg
Posted on: August 4, 2022

Job Description:

West Creek 1 (12071), United States of America, Richmond, VirginiaSenior Manager, Agile Program LeadAs an Agile Program Lead, you'll develop a culture of agility, continuous improvement, and experimentation that leads to predictability and quality delivery throughout the program. The Agile Program Lead will optimize productivity by removing impediments and dependencies that may obstruct the pursuit of the program's goals and by preserving flexibility and the ability to rapidly respond to change. -General Responsibilities:Cross Team Delivery

• Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross team, cross department)
• Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity
• Understands domain architecture and targets to identify upstream/downstream dependencies and to support the program in risk management
• Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
• Help establish governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward empowered teams
• Ensure that teams/program are well managed in delivery controls/compliance to minimize operational/reputational risk
• Partners with technical leaders and others to support program/organization's automation (testing, pipelines, deployments)/DevOps journey -Coaching
  • Teach, mentor, and coach teams, Scrum Masters, ARTs and Product on emerging Agile and Lean methods
  • Utilizes feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and partners with others to coach the program to continuously improve
  • Coaches the program to improve collaboration, self-organization and Innovation
  • Agile & Technical Learning: Actively seeks and leads a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community -Core Responsibilities: -
    • People Leader for 4-5 Agile Delivery Leads or Scrum Masters
    • Partnering with peers and leaders across Product management, Tech, and Design to gain further momentum on our overall Product Transformation
    • Partnering with Product Ops and other APLs to further develop scaling model/practices within/across Value Stream(s), Business Stakeholders and Customers -Basic Qualifications:
      • At least 7 years of experience in Software delivery or infrastructure delivery
      • At least 5 Years of Agile experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban or SAFe methodologies
      • At least 5 years of people management experience -Preferred Qualifications:
        • Bachelors or Master's Degree
        • 8+ years of agile delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban or SAFe frameworks
        • Agile certifications to include: CSM, CSP, - PMI's ACP, SAFe, PMP or Lean Six Sigma
        • 8+ year of experience using Jira or Confluence -At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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