Job Summary:
The IT Systems Engineer Senior serves as a servant leader and Agile coach, enabling cross-functional teams to deliver business value through modern delivery practices and a product-centric operating model. This role partners closely with Product Managers, Engineering teams, and stakeholders to foster collaboration, drive continuous improvement, remove impediments, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality solutions.
The position plays a critical role in orchestrating delivery across multiple teams, managing dependencies, improving delivery predictability, and supporting the adoption of Agile-at-scale practices. The successful candidate will help teams embrace agility, promote transparency, and align execution with business objectives while driving measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Leadership & Team Enablement
- Serve as a servant leader and coach to Agile teams, promoting Lean and Agile principles, practices, and continuous improvement.
- Coach team members, Product Managers, and stakeholders on modern delivery practices and product-centric operating models.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning activities.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Product Delivery & Execution
- Support Product Managers and teams in backlog refinement, prioritization, release planning, and defining measurable business outcomes.
- Establish and maintain team norms, working agreements, and definitions of done to ensure compliance with organizational standards, governance requirements, and quality expectations.
- Monitor delivery metrics and team performance indicators to identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Communicate team progress, achievements, and challenges to stakeholders and leadership.
Cross-Team Coordination & Dependency Management
- Orchestrate delivery across multiple product and engineering teams, ensuring alignment of priorities, schedules, and dependencies.
- Identify, track, and manage cross-functional and cross-team dependencies.
- Facilitate coordination across Product Managers, Engineering teams, and shared service functions to ensure successful delivery of interdependent initiatives.
- Drive release alignment and execution planning across multiple delivery streams.
Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
- Proactively identify risks and issues that may impact delivery and facilitate mitigation planning.
- Remove impediments or engage appropriate stakeholders to resolve blockers.
- Drive adoption of Agile-at-scale practices and execution governance.
- Establish delivery metrics and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility into progress, value realization, and delivery predictability.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 7–10 years of overall professional experience.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments with multiple cross-functional teams.
- Experience coordinating delivery across product, engineering, platform, or shared services teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Lean principles, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience managing dependencies, release planning, and execution across multiple teams.
- Ability to work effectively within global delivery models and distributed teams.
Preferred Certifications
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or other Agile-at-scale certifications
Agile & Delivery Leadership
- Agile Coaching and Mentoring
- Scrum and Agile Framework Facilitation
- Lean Methodologies and Continuous Improvement
- Product-Centric Operating Models
- Agile-at-Scale Frameworks (SAFe, Scrum@Scale, etc.)
Collaboration & Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Influencing and Driving Alignment
- Effective Facilitation and Communication
Execution & Problem Solving
- Risk and Dependency Management
- Release Planning and Coordination
- Delivery Predictability and Performance Measurement
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Decision Making in Ambiguous Environments
Customer & Business Focus
- Customer-Centric Mindset
- Value Delivery and Outcome Orientation
- Business Alignment and Value Realization
- Building Trusted Partnerships
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting Data Product or Data Platform organizations.
- Understanding of data engineering concepts, data pipelines, APIs, data quality frameworks, analytics platforms, and AI/ML use cases.
- Experience managing upstream and downstream data dependencies impacting product delivery.
- Exposure to portfolio-level planning, release train coordination, and enterprise-scale Agile governance.
- Experience working with global teams across onshore and offshore delivery models
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 7-10 years of overall professional experience
- Experience working in Agile software development environments with multiple cross-functional teams
- Experience coordinating delivery across product, engineering, platform, or shared services teams
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Lean principles, and modern software delivery practices
- Experience managing dependencies, release planning, and execution across multiple teams
- Ability to work effectively within global delivery models and distributed teams
- Agile coaching and mentoring experience
- Scrum and Agile framework facilitation skills
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional team leadership
- Risk and dependency management, release planning, and delivery predictability measurement
- Experience supporting Data Product or Data Platform organizations
- Understanding of data engineering concepts, data pipelines, APIs, data quality frameworks, analytics platforms, and AI/ML use cases
- Experience managing upstream and downstream data dependencies impacting product delivery
- Exposure to portfolio-level planning, release train coordination, and enterprise-scale Agile governance
- Experience working with global teams across onshore and offshore delivery models
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or other Agile-at-scale certification
Cummins Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cummins and has not been reviewed or approved by Cummins.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company contribution/match and both defined contribution and defined benefit pension plans are offered, alongside profit sharing and an employee stock purchase plan. This mix supports long-term savings and financial security.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (HSA, HSA Plus, PPO) with dental, vision, life and long-term disability coverage are provided, along with telehealth, mental-health support, and wellness tools. In-network protections and HSA/HSA Plus structures are described to help manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, family medical leave, and adoption assistance are offered. Reduced or flexible hours and unpaid extended leave options further support caregiving needs.
Cummins Insights
What We Do
At Cummins, we empower everyone to grow their careers through meaningful work, building inclusive and equitable teams, coaching, development and opportunities to make a difference. Across our entire organization, you'll find engineers, developers, and technicians who are innovating, designing, testing, and building. You'll also find accountants, marketers, as well as manufacturing, quality and supply chain specialists who are working with technology that's just as innovative and advanced.
