Agile Coach

Corporate Bank Technology – Cash Management – Agile Coach / Scrum Master, VP

Job Title: Corporate Bank Technology – Cash Management – Agile Coach / Scrum Master, VP

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description

• As a Agile coach / Scrum master in the Cash Management team, you will play a key role in improving the agile maturity and simplify the end-to-end delivery for clients by improving user experience, quicker delivery and forming more cross functional teams.

• The ideal candidate will deliver exceptional results through close partnership with business and enablement functions (operations, technology, compliance) located globally in managing complex changes across technology, operational processing and regulatory landscape while serving the clients.

Deutsche Bank's Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel.

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy

• Gender neutral parental leaves

• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)

• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education

• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members

• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents

• Accident and Term life Insurance

• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Provide Agile coaching to teams on all aspects of the project management framework, with a strong focus on Scrum practices

• Coaching and mentoring ScrumMasters, Product Owners, Agile teams and management to enhance release planning, Agile ceremonies, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices

• Transferring knowledge and helping teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing the outcome, collaboration, and quality practices

• Lead the overall relationship between lines of business (LOB) or groups and the Agile COE (and other resources supporting Agile Transformation), relationship building, business development, facilitation of expert resources and alignment with team / leadership needs

• Introduce Agile methodologies and implement agility in the project delivery processes using SAFe and Scrum

• Continue to evangelize the need for top-down support for agile culture and values in order to achieve maximum results from the use of agile practices

• Demonstrates and shares experiences and observations with all team members and to ensure best practices are being used and recommends process improvement

• Oversees the overall objective cohesion of initiatives involving many scrum teams and leads initiative performance

• Assesses emerging trends/best practices and determines implications of proposed methodologies on meeting business unit strategy

• Work with product owners and Squad leads to ensure realistic planning

• Ensure dependencies across squads are identified and managed

• Facilitate sprint ceremonies: planning, reviews and retrospectives

• Manage and track delivery health via KPI's (velocity, cycle time, burndown, etc)

• Identify inefficiencies in delivery process and drive optimization

• Develop strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders : Product owners, Squad leads, QA Leads and Engineers

• Help influence peers / stakeholders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 10 years of working experience in software analysis, product/program management or delivery management experience in the Financial Services industry.

• Typically holds a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science Engineering, or other related engineering field (or has equivalent work experience)

• Hands-on experience using various Agile Tools

• Advanced industry recognized certifications related to Agile

• Removing organizational impediments either within one Rapid lab or across labs/products

• Help teams implement Agile development approaches

• Experience implementing SAFE

• Proven experience in leading large scale IT delivery projects covering implementation and delivery of multiple applications from scratch and working across cross functional teams and managing senior stakeholders across geographic locations.

• Mentor teams on Agile approach to estimation, planning, and story mapping.

• Facilitating superior performance at the team level

• Take care of delivery hurdles

• Supervising multiple teams like Scrum of Scrums, Big Room Planning, and Retrospectives

• Enabling changes in new ways of working

• Build Agile maturity

• Coach and guide Scrum Masters

• Build self-organizing teams of Agile teams

• Enhance predictability of solution delivery

• Interacting with stakeholders for generating business value

• Proactive mindset with a high degree of comfort navigating ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities

• Has worked with cross functional teams.

• Able to demonstrate improvements to internal and external process across multiple teams and functions

• Experience operating autonomously and rapidly and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions, with stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Coaching and support from experts in your team

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.