Associate Principal, IT Governance – Scrum / Agile
Chicago, Illinois
Salary:$119,600
Direct Hire
Job Title: Associate Principal, IT Governance – Scrum / Agile Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid – 3 days in office per week) Type: Direct Hire Compensation: Competitive salary, Access to Healthcare, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan of Choice, and 401K
Chamberlain Advisors is currently seeking an Associate Principal, IT Governance for our direct client in the financial services industry. This is a direct hire position. Click apply now and join the Chamberlain experience.
Summary This role is accountable for driving the Agile transformation across the enterprise through sustained coaching models and various learning approaches. This role requires advanced experience in Agile frameworks with practical experience in an Agile role at either the program or team levels with demonstrated ability to adopt Agile principles, mindset, practices and methodologies. This role will drive the team to teach, mentor, and advise teams, product owners, business stakeholders on agile practices and design strategies for delivery teams to improve and mature their use of Agile principles and practices.
What You Will Be Accountable For
Drive efforts to guide and coach delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work
Contribute to the “building” of Agile teams/squads
Provide support to the Product Owner and Delivery Team, and lead by example
Participate in and lead discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Contribute to a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved
Continually improve Scrum Master skills through education and engaging with fellow Scrum Masters
Work with Product Owner and Team to plan and execute project implementations
Support the identification and mitigation of project risks
Participate in and lead regular assessments of a team Agile Maturity and uses the results to guide them to improved performance
Work with Product Owner and Delivery Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'
Drive internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation
Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data
Drive daily stand-ups, facilitate story grooming, coordinate sprint demos, planning and retrospectives
Assist with response to regulatory audits regarding process flows
What Qualifications You Need
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology OR 5+ years equivalent work experience
Experience as a Scrum Master with 3+ years managing a software development team that was applying Agile/Scrum principles and practices
3+ years of experience with JIRA
Ability to anticipate issues based on experience to help the team avoid or resolve the issues
Experience with Agile PLM tools like JIRA, Portfolio for JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, etc.
Proven ability to work with toolsets including, but not limited to Jira, MS Project, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint
Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and IT systems design
Familiarity within a ticketing system such as ServiceNow
Understands Agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices. Experience with agile transformations, building Agile teams and implementing Agile “from scratch”.
Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (diverse team sizes, organizations, cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
Experience with Scaled Agile (SAFe) / Scrum of Scrums or equivalent.
Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
The proven ability to be self-motivated and a self-starter. Ability to work under minimal supervision. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Strong customer service mindset.
Demonstrated experience and success with organizational process design and implementation
Strong background in ITIL and Agile methodologies
Proven experience in project and program management
Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting
Experience in sprint & release planning, running demos and retrospectives
Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities
Ability to review large amounts of data and analyze and spot trends and provide analysis and insights. Experience consolidating data from multiple data sources.
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