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Infosys · 5 days ago

Agile Program Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Coaching Scrum Masters within an Agile Release Train (ART) in framing the ART level Working Agreement, Definition-of-Done and Definition-of-Ready.

Facilitation of program events (PI Planning event, scrum-of-scrum, PO Sync, System Demo and Inspect and Adapt workshop) with agile teams that are globally distributed with a time-zone difference of 8+ hours

Ensuring healthy product backlog depth at an ART level by working with Product Managers, Product Owners, System Architects, and other stakeholders as needed

Tracking, handling, and resolving escalated issues at a program level by working with client stakeholders

Tracking and handling feature dependencies within an ART

Consolidation and publishing of program level metrics to provide transparency on the status of epics and features

Facilitate workshops to identify and implement ART level process improvements

Acting as the single-point-of-contact in periodically communicating an epic’s status to client stakeholders

Ability to work cohesively with agile teams that are globally distributed with time-zone difference that is greater than 8 hours

Hands-on experience in using tools like CA Agile Center (Rally), JIRA, VersionOne or HP ALM

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and interact with various IT stakeholders that include Infrastructure, DBA, Architects, Release Management, SFT, etc.)

Facilitating agile maturity assessment workshops at periodic intervals to gauge the agile maturity index of agile teams within an ART and identify opportunities for improvements

Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate seamlessly with agile teams, peers, and senior client stakeholders

Creating content and presenting to client leadership stakeholders with minimal oversight

Experience in implementing TDD/BDD, Kanban, XP in addition to other scaling frameworks like Spotify, LeSS, Nexus, etc.

Demonstration of continuous learning either by obtaining external certifications relevant to agile, participation in external forums or publishing thought papers

Leading multiple agile teams in deploying shippable features that meet quality parameters and target delivery dates would be preferred.

Facilitating program events and the end-to-end delivery of value across multiple Agile Release Trains is preferred.

Handling cross-functional agile team coordination within an Agile Release Train (ART) would be an advantage.

Coaching scrum masters and agile team members to improve the agile maturity index of individual scrum teams as a Servant Leader would be an advantage.

Qualification

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AgileTDD/BDDKanbanXPScaled FrameworksCommunicationProblem-SolvingLeadershipSAFeSPCRTEAgile Release TrainAgile TeamScrum Agile Maturity IndexCoachingTeam CoordinationServant Leadership

Required

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. We Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

7+ years of experience in the IT industry in which the incumbent must have played the roles of either a Business Analyst, Developer, Lead Developer, IT Project Manager, or an IT Program Manager etc.

Demonstrate technical IT orientation and awareness of IT landscape in delivering program increments

Demonstrated progression of agile experience from a Scrum Master to a Release Train Engineer

US Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor work visas currently.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and interact with various IT stakeholders that include Infrastructure, DBA, Architects, Release Management, SFT, etc.)

Facilitating agile maturity assessment workshops at periodic intervals to gauge the agile maturity index of agile teams within an ART and identify opportunities for improvements

Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate seamlessly with agile teams, peers, and senior client stakeholders

Creating content and presenting to client leadership stakeholders with minimal oversight

Experience in implementing TDD/BDD, Kanban, XP in addition to other scaling frameworks like Spotify, LeSS, Nexus, etc.

Demonstration of continuous learning either by obtaining external certifications relevant to agile, participation in external forums or publishing thought papers

Preferred

Possess active certifications such as SAFe – SPC or SAFe-RTE (latest version only!)

Leading multiple agile teams in deploying shippable features that meet quality parameters and target delivery dates would be preferred.

Facilitating program events and the end-to-end delivery of value across an multiple Agile Release Train is preferred.

Handling cross-functional agile team coordination within an Agile Release Train (ART) would be an advantage.

Coaching scrum masters and agile team members to improve the agile maturity index of individual scrum teams as a Servant Leader would be an advantage.

The job may also entail sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Candidates should be able to effectively communicate by telephone, email, and face to face.