Agility Senior Associate

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 Regulatory Controls and Risk Technology 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.
Regulatory, Controls & Operation Risk Technology is part of Corporate Technology, which designs and develops business products required to identify and manage JPMC's regulatory obligations and associated firm policies, a control environment designed to manage compliance and operational risks across all Lines of Business and Corporate Functions and the calculation of Regulatory Capital and projection of Operational Risk Losses.
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
• Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
• Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
• Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvement events
• Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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.
• Experience as a practicing Agility Lead on a team.
• Experience to modern engineering practices like Unit Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration
• Expert with Agile and Scrum framework and its application in Product Development and delivery organization and ability to coach and mentor.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels.
• Hand on experience on scaling framework such as Large Scale Scrum ( LeSS)
• Demonstrate proficiency in coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Preferred tool experience: JIRA, JIRA Align, Lucid spark and Confluence.

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
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.