EPiX Agility Director

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

As an Agility Transformation Director in Firmwide Products and Platforms, 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 strong facilitation skills will ensure that all team members feel engaged, valued, and empowered to excel in their performance, ensuring the ongoing growth and development of our teams and the achievement of our strategic goals.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategic plans for Agile Transformation to align with broader functional and organizational strategies and ensure the adoption of agile methodologies and best practices, 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 ensure 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
• Ability to operationalize changes and correlate the impact and desired outcomes of change(s) 

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 strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively guide, inspire, and influence teams and stakeholders 
• Engineering background as both the products and customers are engineering focused

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications
• Working with teams that are delivering technical / engineering products/offerings

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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 ot