Associate-agile Execution

The Business Management Associate job is responsible for providing strategic support for the assigned business area. Under mínimal supervision, this job executes strategic business management consulting to leaders by analyzing metrics and presentations to support business strategies, driving business management policies and routines, and being a point of contact for leaders in the execution of business management tasks.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Generates complex metrics and drafts and reviews reports in assigned functional business area to inform decisions on tactical issues that impact the business.
- Implements policies and procedures in support of the business area strategy.
- Implements process improvements in the assigned business area.
- Analyzes and reports on area data (financial, headcount, etc.) and performance metrics.
- Supports business management projects by documenting risks, issues and action items.
- Drives meeting planning in support of business projects and objectives.

Educational Requirements
- University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience
- 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements
- Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

7IC

Agile Execution Lead is responsible for overseeing and driving business agility by successful implementation of agile methodologies and execution of large-scale Lean Agile portfolio within the Retirement, Marketing & Digital Client (RMDC) Technology group while integrating with organizational Agile practices. This leader will drive a mindset of Agile across business and technology teams, develop skillset of Agile execution principles and practices, and deploy toolset to deliver on business outcomes. Managing both technical and cultural change that arises from “Agile way of working” will be critical to this role’s success.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and implement strategies for the successful implementation and adoption of agile mindset, skillset, and toolset within the RMDC Technology group and across impacted business stakeholders
- Design, shape, and monitor a large Agile portfolio of strategic and business-as-usual initiatives leveraging Lean Agile framework
- Establish, monitor, report, and track impactful metrics to measure maturity, adoption, acceleration, and effectiveness for continuous improvement
- Conduct / organize Agile training for executives, managers and leaders, Agile teams, and specialty roles such as Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum Master, and Release Train Engineers
- Integrate Agile outcomes with defined business case to articulate benefits and ROI
- Collaborate with senior technology leadership to align agile goals with overall business objectives
- Help define and launch Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and related resourcing within respective technology teams
- Leading and facilitating critical events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and Inspect and Adapt (I&A)
- Foster SAFe Communities of Practice (CoPs), communicate progress, implement Lean-Agile focus days with industry perspectives, develop internal case studies, conduct benchmarking and connect with the external Agile communities to drive best practices
- Promote Lean-Agile education and extend Lean-Agile practices to other areas of the company, including Lean Budgets, Lean Portfolio Management, Business, Finance, and Human Resources
- Work closely with Lean Agile Center of Excellence team and other technology groups to identify areas for improvement and develop action plans for addressing them
- Facilitate regular agile meetings and retrospectives

Educational Requirements
- University (Degree) Preferred
- Work Experience
- 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred
- Physical Requirements
- Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

**Required Skills**:

- 7+ years of Agile experience
- Agile certification

Preferred Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience with agile methodologies, including SAFe, LACE, Scrum, Kanban and other Agile frameworks
- Strong leadership and coaching skills for technical and cultural transformation to drive Agile execution
- Skilled at using Agile tools - JIRA align, Rally, Confluence
- Excellent communication, organizational, and collaboration abilities
- Ability to analyze complex data and develop actionable insights
- Demonstrated success in implementing and improving agile processes in a corporate setting
- Knowledge of agile metrics and techniques for measuring agile effectiveness
- Financial Services experience preferred
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Company Overview

TIAA GBS India was established in 2016 with a mission to tap into a vast pool of talent, reduce risk by insourcing key platforms and processes, as well as contribute to innovation with a focus on enhancing our technology stack. TIAA GBS India is focused on building a scalable and sustainable organization, with a focus on technology, operations and expanding into the shared services business space.

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