at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Job Description: Vice President, Agile Coach, OMN
Summary:
The role involves working for Northern Trust Omnium Change Management, supporting the adoption of Agile framework across the Omnium Platform. Omnium is a multi-tenant platform supporting mainly Hedge Fund Services (HFS), a global fund administrator, specializing in complex hedge funds and alternative asset investments. The successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter who has core knowledge of Agile frameworks and methodologies and has demonstrated the ability to function in a dynamic, fast-paced and demanding environment. The role will be a key part of our Omnium Change Management team and will be visible to many executives and teams.
The Agile Coach will serve as the subject matter expert on agile principles, methodologies, and best practices, while being responsible for working across all levels of the organization to increase Agile acumen, develop and enhance intellectual property, and standardize processes to ensure successful adoption of Agile principles and mindset to achieve the greatest business value. The Agile Coach works with a the Omnium Change Management and IT teams to drive the adoption and optimization of Agile practices. The Agile Coach provides mentoring and coaching, and must be able to correlate learnings to principles and practices with supporting, relevant, real-world examples. The Omnium Change Management team includes product management, program management, scrum master / agile manager and release coordination roles.
Major Duties:
- Sets Agile framework and methodologies to be leveraged for the Agile transformation plan
- Guides and influences all levels of the organization including senior leadership, IT, change management and business, through the cultural and process change around Agile methodologies/mind-set
- Helps to create empowered, self-organizing, high-performing teams that continue to improve independently
- Evaluates and mentors new and experienced Agile teams, and collaborates with the Agile teams to regularly identify and implement improvements
- Ensures Agile ceremonies are completed effectively and the value is understood
- Ensures the preparatory activities are consistently in place for successful delivery including a product backlog with sufficient estimated stories with clear acceptance criteria, regular release planning sessions, stand-ups and effective retrospectives
- Helps to create an open and trust-based environment, which enables a focus on delivery and facilitates continuous improvement
- Coaches teams, scrum masters / agile managers, product management, program management and IT on Agile concepts and industry best practices (refinement, backlog prioritization, release /sprint planning, value and use of relative estimation, incorporating engineering practices and using velocity for planning, etc.) and expected benefits
- Coaches the scrum master / agile manager on how to eventually assume ongoing coaching of the team
- Routinely assess the culture and Agile maturity at the team and organization level
- Coaches...
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