Senior Agilist (Agile Coach)

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

We are looking for a dynamic, collaborative personality that can champion the cause of the Agile movement within the organization. You are passionate about leading change, helping shift mindset and influence culture change. Fostering new ways of thinking, new ways of working and building new capabilities that will help unlock new possibilities for U.S. Bank. You possess strategic vision and tactical mastery and combine it with an entrepreneurial spirit to get it done.

The Sr Agilist / Coach role is focused on coaching and empowering Leadership, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, Product Managers and the organization.  As a Sr Agilist / Coach, one should be passionate about coaching on all facets of Agile, building effective teams and coaching individuals to reach their potential. An Sr Agilist / Coach is well-versed in Agile practices through hands on experience. Additionally, they work to help leadership across the organization understand Agile and its benefits.  This individual is someone who has experience in coaching, conflict management, mediation, facilitation, interaction with executive level leadership and people leadership.  A candidate for this role is responsible for coaching leadership, teams and individuals in best practices and influence the direction, predictability, and value output of teams.  They are also responsible for a team of Scrum Master direct reports and the career and personal growth for that team.

Primary Responsibilities and Role Overview:

• Coach the organization, teams and individuals on Agile best practices

• Work directly with individuals (Scrum Masters, Product Products and team members) to identify strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, tools and dynamics

• Knowledge and experience in multiple Agile frameworks

• Experience acting as a facilitator, trainer, coach, and mentor for teams and organizations

• Strong knowledge of Agile values, principles and practices

• Demonstrated growth and curiosity mindset

Basic Qualifications

• Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience using various Agile Frameworks (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.)

• Experience Working with Executive Leadership

• Strong knowledge of Agile values, principles and practices

• Demonstrated growth and curiosity mindset

• Able to explain what Agile mindset means, what makes a great team and how both of those connect to the Agile Principles

• Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution, and time management skills

• Working technical knowledge of the software development process - design, development, test, and deployment

• Application experience desired: Jira, Confluence, Dragonboat and Tableau

• Experience in financial services

Preferred Skills:

• Prior Functional Management Experience

• Graduate Degree

• Experience with outcomes-based planning and delivery (i.e., OKR) a plus

• People Leadership

• Product Management experience

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of min