Principal Associate, Agile Delivery Lead - Card Technology

Company: Capital One
Location: Fredericksburg
Posted on: August 5, 2022

Job Description:

Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, VirginiaPrincipal Associate, Agile Delivery Lead - Card TechnologyJob DescriptionWe are seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to join our Card Tech teams. In the Agile Delivery Lead role, you'll ensure your teams' delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology to enable predictable, quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. The Agile Delivery Lead will optimize team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team.General Responsibilities:Delivery

• Supports one or more software engineering teams through Kanban/Scrum Agile methodologies
• Ensures team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery
• Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments, and progress
• Is well managed - understands and coaches the team on delivery controls, compliance to minimize operational, and reputational risk
• Understands domain architecture and targets to identify upstream and downstream dependencies and to support the team in risk management
• Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
• Supports Release Train Engineers, Product & Tech Teams to remove impediments and manage dependencies for deliveryCoaching
  • Integrates Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products
  • Coaches Product Owner and team on backlog refinement and prioritization
  • Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve
  • Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery
  • Developing understanding and encouragement of team's engineering innovation and improvement (engineering practices, DevOps, etc.)
  • Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization
  • Developing ability to act as an Agile mentor and coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role
  • Agile and Technical Learning: Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training, and independent study to further develop self and community
  • Communicates with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.Basic Qualifications:
    • At least 3 years of experience as an Agile Scrum Master
    • At least 6 years of Agile delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe methodologiesPreferred Qualifications:
      • Bachelor's Degree
      • 3+ years of experience with Jira, Jira Align, or Confluence
      • 3+ years of Agile coaching experience
      • 6+ years of experience as an Agile Scrum Master
      • 8+ years of Agile delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe methodologies
      • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI's Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification
      • SAFe certified or experience (or other scaled Agile frameworks)At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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