Senior Principal Agile Program Manager

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. 

As a Senior Manager Agile Program Manager, you will leverage your deep understanding of agile principles and modern software product development process to shape how we work, learn, and innovate. You leverage your Agile management skillset to continuously evolve product development process to reduce waste and improve efficiency.  You will also help build strong communities and shape our culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. 

Responsibilities 

• Ensure clear alignment of work against objective and key results/goals to empower product teams to deliver key results. In partnership with Business Director/Business Technology Director. 

• Facilitate coordination and collaboration of product area/families to maximize the flow of work across complex Products.  

• Optimize the flow of work from ideation to delivery across Product Families. 

• Dependency Management across product area/family to guide the org to deliver high quality value. 

• Removal of systemic impediment. 

• Foster adoption of the CraftWorx/single Agile Way of Working standards and contribute to the Discover body of knowledge on our patterns and practices. 

• Leverages metrics to derive insights, continuously identify and drive improvement opportunities to fruition across the product family.  

• Be the champion of Agile delivery practices within a Product Family , and a thought leader in the Discover Technology Academy (DTA) on Agile practices for the enterprise. 

• Partner with the Tech Anchors, Scrum Masters, SPO, PO's and BTD's to drive maturity of our CraftWorx practices within a product family, supported by DTA. 

• Teach, mentor and coach their product family to mature product team practices in alignment with DTA playbooks. 

• Building community, foster inter-team collaboration with a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement across the entire Product Area.  

• You do not need to know your audience to be comfortable and meet the audience needs.  

• Confident in facilitating with little reparation or advanced warning, as you intuitively know what works well in different contexts and you can draw upon many different facilitation techniques targeted for your audience.  

• Has a comprehensive understanding of facilitation skills and is able to use them to address complex problems or situations. Your toolbox consists of variety of participatory decision making, collaborative, visual and kinesthetic facilitation techniques both for large and small groups. They are also able to mentor and coach others in facilitation skills.  

• You are a sought-after expert to facilitate outside your domain area.  

• You are sought after to mentor others in effective facilitation, and you grow facilitation competency more broadly. 

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

• Bachelors – Information Technology or related 

• 8+ Years – Agile or related experience 

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points if you have: 

• Prior delivery Management experience Agile/Waterfall.

• Proven prior experience with managing delivery of large complex initiatives using both traditional and Agile approaches .

What are you waiting for? Apply today! 

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Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $100,500.00 to $170,100.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, edu