Agilist - Global Fund Services

 

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

Agilists at U.S. Bank are customer obsessed with a focus on serving product teams, ensuring all product vision, planning and development activities are rooted in Agile and Product Values & Principles. Agilist enables the organization to consistently experiment and evolve business strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback. They drive culture change through day to day to work with a focus on Agile & Product mindset, values and continuous improvement and keep the team focused on achieving product goals using agile methods. As an Agilist, you will:

-Drive delivery by enabling the product/team to consistently conduct discovery focused on the customer, experiment and evolve product strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback loops.

-Own the agile practices of the team/product group/journey including cross-portfolio impacts, planning, dependency maps, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and key metrics for success in partnership with Product Management, business partners, digital and technology modelling agile methods, values, and principles.

-Champion and coach on agile ways of working and mindset. Focuses on agile methods for prioritization, supports product management routines such as QPP, scaling the Shield Way of Working Toolkit, and builds the expertise of the team through coaching and training.

-Implement and lead tactics using agile tools for product roadmaps, OKRs, sprint planning, backlog refinement and collaboration (tools include JIRA, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, KYT metrics).

-Owns agile tactics such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, working agreements, charters, team routines, team rosters, dependency maps in partnership with product management.

-Refine Definition of Done, MVP (coaching), Personas, and Story Maps and supports refining the backlog as a member of the team.

-Own and drive agile portfolio management tasks.

-Manage and simplify governance, audit and evidence aspects of delivering product work in support of the strategic roadmaps and business objectives in partnership with product management and risk management.

-Assist with funding, staffing and team rosters including overseeing team kickoff training and vendor management.

-Establish and monitor team/agile metrics to improve the discovery and delivery of the team related to customer outcomes and continuous improvement.Basic Qualifications
-Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experiencePreferred Skills/Experience- Strong knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge
- Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Experience in business analysis, product/project management, or product development
- Experience successfully delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
- Demonstrated ability to influence team and key stakeholders
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to work in ambiguity and iterate to a solution – can estimate and solve basic business problems without explicit direction
- Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes
- Demonstrated technical leadership and direction
- Demonstrated program-level collaboration and system architecture understanding
- Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution, budgeting and time management skills
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification a plusThe 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.

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Benefits: 

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