Senior Agile Delivery and Transformation Lead-Executive Director

Description

Harness your technical and strategic expertise to shape innovative client solutions and bridge product capabilities with real-world challenges! As a Senior Agile Delivery and Transformation Lead on the Data & Analytics (D&A) Team, you’ll drive three key responsibilities: managing a team of Agility Leads (ALs), Agility Lead Managers, Product Agility Leads (PALs), driving multi-product performance improvement efforts, and ensuring robust metrics and governance.

As the Senior Agile Delivery and Transformation Lead, you’ll foster a culture of innovation and high performance. You will be a critical pillar in our enterprise agility strategy, helping scale best practices across the entire product portfolio, as well as to meet the needs of a complex, product-driven organization. You’ll enhance team effectiveness, quality, speed, and overall employee and client experience by reducing barriers and improving practices.

Job Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of PALs, ALs and AL Managers on how to effectively uplift and support their products

Partner with stakeholders and leaders in Product, Technology, Data, Design, and other key areas to ensure alignment of effort

Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding your team to successfully implement agile practices across the organization

Enhance delivery processes and productivity through effective collaboration and innovation

Leverage AI across the product development lifecycle to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Capitalize on opportunities and design solutions for holistic and long-term improvements across the portfolio.

Deliver business outcomes through streamlined product development practices

Drive the strategic roadmap for the adoption of agile methodologies, ensuring alignment with business objectives

Utilize your communication and influence skills to remove impediments for the team

Identify hot-spots using baseline product and agility metrics, collaborate on remediation plans, prevent metric manipulation, and ensure effective governance

Drive continuous improvement for the portfolio of products to enable faster, higher quality, and smoother delivery

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

10+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on product development, agile methodologies, and leading cross-functional teams

Experience managing and developing managers and individual contributors

Possess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support

Display advanced knowledge of agile delivery and multiple agile approaches; with the ability to guide teams through complex projects, emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability

Experience delivering enterprise products at scale and managing product solutions with multiple cross-functional stakeholders

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a focus on team collaboration

Understanding of regulatory and control landscape and its impact on strategy and delivery

Extensive product management experience related to a data and analytics function

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a related discipline

Management consulting skillset (impact orientation, business understanding, program management, executive presence)

Deep knowledge of data governance and controls