Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Agile leadership & coaching: Serve as an Agile Lead/Scrum Master for multiple teams—facilitate Agile ceremonies, coach teams and stakeholders on Agile principles, and reinforce healthy team norms.
- Delivery execution: Own end-to-end delivery planning and execution—scope, milestones, capacity, dependencies, risks/issues, and release readiness.
- Transformation enablement: Contribute to Agile transformation initiatives (ways of working, operating model changes, metrics, tooling), helping teams adopt consistent practices and improve maturity over time.
- Stakeholder management: Partner with Product Owners/Managers, Engineering leads, Design, Data, Operations, and Risk/Control partners to align priorities, manage trade-offs, and ensure clear decision-making.
- Metrics & transparency: Establish and maintain delivery/flow metrics (e.g., throughput, cycle time, predictability, quality signals), and produce clear status and insights for leadership.
- Continuous improvement: Identify bottlenecks and systemic issues, lead retrospectives beyond the team level, and drive actionable improvements to increase speed and quality sustainably.
- Cross-team coordination: Manage dependencies across teams and/or platforms; coordinate integrated planning and delivery across multiple workstreams where required.
- Governance & controls (as applicable): Ensure delivery artifacts and routines support required governance, documentation, and control expectations.
Required Qualifications
- Experience as a Scrum Master and/or Agile Lead, and strong understanding of Agile delivery practices (Scrum, Kanban, Lean fundamentals).
- Proven delivery management experience in a product and technology environment (multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholder groups).
- Ability to influence without authority; strong facilitation, conflict resolution, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated track record improving delivery outcomes (predictability, cycle time, quality, team health) using data and practical interventions.
- Comfort working in a regulated / controlled environment with multiple stakeholders and governance touchpoints.
- Strong organizational skills—can manage competing priorities, ambiguity, and shifting timelines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications: CSM/PSM, SAFe (SSM/SA/POPM), ICAgile (or equivalent).
- Experience supporting Agile transformation at scale (multi-team, program, or portfolio level).
- Familiarity with Agile tooling and reporting (e.g., Jira/Confluence) and practical metric design.
- Experience with modern product delivery practices (discovery-to-delivery, OKRs, experiment-driven delivery).
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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