At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Here at Northwestern Mutual we are looking to expand our Enterprise Information Risk and Cybersecurity (EIRC) department to add three expert Kanban Management Professionals (KMPs) to support cross-functional Scrum and Kanban teams within the Risk Information, Risk Analytics and Quantification, and Department Operation programs.
This Kanban Management Professional role demands a passion for lean and agile practices, ability to develop hard-working teams, knowledge of Kanban practices, proven track record for building relationships with risk analysts, risk management consultants, security engineers, and Product Managers, and a deep set of soft-skills including facilitation, mentor, influencing and negotiation.
What's the role?

• Mentor Product Owners/Managers to maintain transparency between all team members and partners on the state of the product backlog, team performance, service delivery and work plans.
• Find opportunities for experimentation and growth for continuous improvement both personally and as a member of a team.
• Work with teams and management to visualize invisible knowledge work and how it moves through a workflow.
• Apply the Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban (STATIK) with the teams to set up Kanban systems.
• Coach teams to apply a complete way of thinking about service delivery with a focus on improving them from your (internal) customers' perspective.
• Demonstrate Lean Kanban implementation and facilitation practices.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure backlog is prioritized in a fashion that minimizes delays and handles dependencies.
• Actively contribute and guide to the refinement of work in the backlog by analyzing requirements and resolving Definition of Done.
• Demonstrate and ensure teams apply standard methodologies and effective agile, Kanban, and Scrum practices.
• Facilitate resolution of dependencies between your teams and the brokered service providers.
• Support reporting on work progress and deliverables to management.

Bring your best! What this role needs:

• Experience working with agile teams in software development, risk management, security/ risk assessment, security compliance, information risk auditing or risk analytic environments.
• Experience with JIRA and JIRA Align or similar work management tools.
• Expertise working in scaled agile environments demonstrating one of the scaled frameworks (Nexus, SAFe, LeSS etc.).
• Detailed understanding of the Kanban Method, Scrum and SAFe values, principles and standard methodologies.

Our Benefits!

• Highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Extensive Professional Training Opportunities
• Excellent Work/Life Balance
• Hackathons/Dedication to Innovation

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