Agility Transformation Director - Payments Technology

Embark on a strategic role to revolutionize agile practices, enhancing team dynamics and business outcomes.

As an Agility Transformation Director in Commercial & Investment Banking (CIB) Payments Technology, you will shape the strategic direction of solution delivery teams across functions. Leveraging your expert agile knowledge and extensive management experience, you will lead the development and implementation of innovative strategies that push continuous improvement, foster collaboration, and enable optimal delivery of high-quality product solutions. Your ability to exercise creativity, foresight, and judgment will be critical in shaping the future of our business practices. Your good facilitation skills will recommend that all team members feel engaged, valued, and empowered to excel in their performance, improving the ongoing growth and development of our teams and the achievement of our strategic activities.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategic plans for Agile Transformation impacting ~7,000 engineers to align with broader functional and organizational strategies and improve the adoption of agile methodologies and new ideas, enabling higher levels of organizational performance and delivery of high-quality product solutions.
• Execute and manage Agile Transformation at-scale. Advocate and facilitate a cultural shift within the organization to include continuous improvement, collaboration, and high performance.
• Coach teams and individuals to enhance agile capabilities, and recommend these principles are deeply ingrained in our everyday work.
• Evaluate and optimize team performance, identify areas for improvement and implement tailored solutions to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to influence the development and structure of the domain, quality standards, and service delivery.
• Lead the development of strategic tool sets to increase execution speed and reduce the burden on development teams.
• Lead a core working group of leaders across technology areas to define strategy and drive desired practices across teams.
• Interface with cross-functional groups on new ideas and alignment with broader firm-wide strategies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7 years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching individuals, leaders, and teams in agile methodologies and leading cross-functional teams
• Demonstrate expert understanding of products across relevant lines of business and of the product development lifecycle, including strategy, discovery, planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations, commercialization, and maintenance.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in agile delivery and multiple Agile approaches, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and scaling frameworks and their application in complex development environments.
• Exhibit excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively guide, inspire, and influence teams and stakeholders. 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, with the ability to write, commit, test, and debug code.
• Good working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies, including experience in optimizing processes to improve time to market and delivery efficiency.