Job Description

Overview

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description

This job is responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams. Key responsibilities include optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered for medium to high complexity projects and programs. Job expectations include ensuring the team resolves impediments quickly, following agreed-to processes, and maintaining a good relationship with the product management team and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Provides visibility into the Agile teams delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
• Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
• Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team
• Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog
• Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles
• Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncs

Skills

• Agile Practices
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Automation
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management

LOB Specific Job Description

Position Summary

Required Qualifications

• 7 years experience in technology and working in an agile environment.
• Working knowledge of Lean Agile SDLC processes and deliverables.
• Ability to lead discussions and create clear and concise documentation.
• Ability to enhance process and efficiency.
• Willingness to facilitate learning and empower team members to teach others (Train the Trainer).
• Excellent proficiency and hands-on experience with Jira.
• Expert in pulling reports from Jira tool.
• Experience in education at all levels of management within the agile framework (portfolio, program, team).
• Experience in education and demonstrating facilitation of core agile practices including but not limited to Servant Leadership.
• Feature and story backlog prioritization and refinement.
• Release planning (Program Increment).
• Excellent analysis and troubleshooting skills.
• Solid communication, relationship, and process management skill.
• Working knowledge of Agile methodology, software development, and testing processes.
• Organized, motivated, team-player, intellectually curious and able to thrive in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to conduct discussions with senior leaders, managers, and team members.
• Proactive - takes initiative/preempts stakeholder requirements before they connect and prepares accordingly.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Confident and assertive able to logically and emphatically put across her/his point of view to influence/convince coming.

Minimum Years of Experience

• 7

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

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