Agile Coach & Lead Scrum Master, Vice President

Full-time - Senior

Jersey City, NJ

About the position

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design the adoption of Agile across multiple teams
• Provide training to the team on the agile process and continuous improvement
• Serve as a role model for Agile values
• Develop and take ownership of training and enablement materials to support Agile process adoption and execution
• Establish and maintain a strong working knowledge of enterprise policies and frameworks for execution of Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Be a trusted advisor on project planning and strategies to align with the enterprise Agile methodologies
• Coach leaders (Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and executives) on Agile leadership practices
• Ensure development teams adhere to Lean/Agile values, practices, tools, and rules
• Develop and execute actionable continuous improvement strategies that increase teams' efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop roadmap for future Agile practices
• Hold inspect and adapt meetings to ensure strategies are producing the outcomes expected
• Field questions on the Agile process during project execution and support progress evaluation
• Proactively identify and help remediate project risks and process issues, advising on cross-functional risk and impediment management processes
• Work with Agile process owners to coordinate dependency planning and management among Agile teams, stakeholders, and shared services
• Help product owners/team members write user stories, calculate capacity, and prepare for scrum meetings
• Help Scrum Masters in preplanning, planning, daily scrum, and review and retrospective
• Monitor industry trends and best practices and apply insights to advance the business
• Collaborate with business units and other technology divisions to advance organizational objectives
• Drive execution of product roadmap, working closely with product design, and development teams
• Manage features prioritization and estimation with focus on business value
• Establish project governance, working groups, and communication with stakeholders
• Ensure roadmap is socialized with stakeholder groups and risks and dependencies are identified and escalated
• Ensure timetable and deliverable schedules are understood and communicated, and drive on-time delivery across teams
• Manage dependencies proactively, coordinate across teams to resolve issues and mitigate risks
• Identify reporting needs and cadence for stakeholder groups and manage delivery
• Produce required reporting for business and technology management review sessions
• Track financials related to expenditures including software, hardware, and resource allocation
• Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
• Use technical and product knowledge to build an understanding of both sprint and product backlogs
• Support talent development for less experienced Scrum Masters
• Coach the scrum team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum tools and practice at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Develop and maintain centralized resource plan/capacity for the department
• Support management with administrative tasks including but not limited to vendor contracts, budget, Town Halls, etc.

Requirements

• 12+ years of overall experience with most recent 5 years in the Banking sector
• 8+ years’ most recent experience coaching global teams in Agile adoption required
• 8+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master required
• 6+ years’ experience creating Agile strategies, leading Agile projects and driving cross-functional engagements with project stakeholders and shared services
• 6+ years’ experience training colleagues in Agile strategies and principles
• 8+ years’ experience managing technology projects
• 8+ years’ experience building project roadmaps, strategies, and backlogs
• 8+ years’ experience in developing and managing resource plans and estimations

Nice-to-haves

• MBA or advanced degree is a plus
• Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master Certification
• CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) preferred
• PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Retirement plans
• Educational assistance and training programs
• Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities
• Paid maternity and parental bonding leave
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays