Manager, Agile Program Manager (Remote-Eligible)
1750 Tysons (12023), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Manager, Agile Program Manager (Remote-Eligible)
As an Agile Program Manager, you will lead and support a group of teams in driving delivery leveraging Scaled Agile practices and ceremonies. You will be responsible for driving progress towards Program goals, while also serving as a centralized point for the escalation and removal of impediments, and risk management.
The Agile Program Manager will also prepare, execute, and guide through Agile ceremonies, such as Program Increment planning, Demos, and Scrum of Scrums. Understanding Agile Methodologies, Change Management, SDLC, Release Management, and Project Management tools and processes are common skills in this role.
Responsibilities:
- Drive successful and timely completion of Enterprise imperatives
- Focus teams to efficiently deliver value
- Drive Agile maturity and innovation approaches across a set of teams
- Coach teams on the basics of Scrum or Kanban (as needed) in simple terms
- Foster a motivating culture of openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Coordinate across other Agile teams for dependency management
- Leverage data to measure & monitor progress against commitments
- Escalate and resolve impediments to help your team with processes
- Ensure solutions are implemented using optimal methods, strategies and processes within time and budget guidelines
- Identify technical, performance, and other issues and proactively communicate with RTE and other stakeholders about best practices
- Identify and manage risks, assumptions, and escalation
- Deliver event-related communications and status updates
- Analyze metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc) to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve
Successful Candidate Experience:
- Relevant Agile training and certifications
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Experience managing projects or complex system integrations
- Experience working independently in a fast paced, unstructured environment
Successful Candidate Interests:
- You enjoy being on cutting edge, high profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
- You are not content simply facilitating but instead you regularly look for ways to roll up your sleeves to help the team meet commitments
- You have a knack for spotting and resolving ambiguity
- You care deeply about those around you and like to use your wit to motivate them
- You enjoy learning new things and mentoring more junior team members
- You look first to try to prevent problems but eagerly dig in to solve them when they arise
- To you, the spirit of the team is just as important as the product it produces
Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.
Basic Qualifications:
- High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification
- At least 3 years of program or project management experience
- At least 3 years of experience in technology delivery (software or infrastructure)
- At least 3 years of Agile Delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban or SAFe methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 2+ years of people management experience
- 2+ years of experience using Jira
- PMP certification
- One of the following SAFe certifications: SAFe Practitioner (SP), Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC)
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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