If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.
The ideal candidate will need to be able to work Arizona Time Zone.
Looking for an excited and highly motivated individual eager to join the PCT Software Engineering Solutions team as a Consultant, Agile Leader. The position will require thought leadership and technical knowledge to lead an Agile line to optimize value delivered. The ideal candidates should be grounded in multiple Agile methodologies, Lean and DevOps principles, and bring a track record of applying appropriately across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Strong verbal and written communication skills along with strong leadership, organization, facilitation, and presentation skills are expected.
This Agile Leader will serve in the ESS organization within PCT. Strong relationship building and leadership rooted in identifying, implementing, and executing key agile processes and practices is essential in this role.
What you’ll get from the roles:
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Opportunity to lead high visibility teams using industry-leading products to deliver greater incremental value to our customers
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Opportunity to provide key input that will influence product roadmap decisions on where to invest, what to improve and what to prioritize
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Opportunity to grow in a highly technical environment
What we would like from you:
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Ability to establish a data-driven culture and a repeatable, structured, and disciplined agile approach while eliminating delays, improving quality, reducing cost and improving / maintaining team happiness
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Ability to coach teams to surface bottlenecks, identify contributing factors, and employ various continuous improvement techniques to drive improvement
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Conduct a positive attitude, passion and the ability to lead, learn, and grow above all
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Possess strong interpersonal skills, including excellent communication and listening skills that allow for a strong generative team culture and psychological safety
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Provide visibility for clear priorities updated regularly, dependency management, WIP limits to maximize velocity, clear timeboxed goals, and continuous improvement for the health of the product
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Collaborate with multiple roles to allow for the smooth flow of work from intake through operations
Preferred candidates will have:
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Certifications in any of the following is a plus; CSM, PMI Agile Scrum, SAFe Scrum Master
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Results demonstrating Lean leadership and progressing DevOps journeys
Compensation Grade: G5
Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!
As an Agile Lead, you will coach a robust, self-organized Agile Team(s) responsible for building software solutions with the best technology, processes, and tools. You will collaborate to deliver business outcomes, using appropriate software delivery practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean) to continuously improve software delivery efficiency, and quality. You will play a key role in guiding delivery from idea inception to implementation and participate in user communities to learn and implement optimal practices.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
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Influences, coaches and mentors team members on Agile practices and principles.
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Removes impediments to the team’s progress; escalate obstacles requiring outside resolution. Identifies risks and issues that might have an impact on delivery and provides thought leadership, facilitation, and communication on a mitigation strategy.
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Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
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Collaborates at the highest level to prioritize work to maximize value towards business outcomes.
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Collaborates with the Agile Team(s) to provide guidance in the areas of analysis, design, development, testing, automation, and deployment while ensuring the usage of the best capability practices.
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Guides and enables DevOps, DataOps, AI/MLOps through the adoption and refinement of Agile practices on our most complex and strategic efforts.
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Monitors and reports on team progress and performance through enterprise and industry metrics while maintaining data quality supporting metric accuracy.
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Collaborates with senior leadership on demand and financials. Actively participates in variable staffing functions for the line.
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Facilitates team cadences on business critical, complex efforts (e.g., retrospective, daily standups, and show-and-tell meetings) to encourage collaboration, communication, and feedback within the team; promote a learning culture and challenge the team to be innovative.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Technology Manager/Director.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is preferred. Agile certification (Certified ScrumMaster – CSM, SAFe ScrumMaster Certification - SSM, Professional ScrumMaster Certification - PSM) and proven experience across multiple teams is a plus.
Experience: Typically, Six years of experience in Agile including three years as an Agile Leader or similar role. Strong technical expertise in one or more Agile practices and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Plus, a technical background in Software Engineering. Three or more years working with ALM tools and Microsoft Office Suite.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members and peers. Ability to manage multiple teams and lead cross team initiatives. Strong candidates will put the team first, have excellent communication skills, robust problem-solving ability, conflict resolution skills and be active in the industry. Insurance and/or financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Hybrid to normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
What We Do
Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide is rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s. An industry leader in driving customer-focused innovation, Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and life insurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities and mutual funds; excess & surplus, specialty and surety; pet, motorcycle and boat insurance. For more information, visit www.nationwide.com.
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