Senior Principal Agile Program Manager

Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description:
What You'll Do

• As a Senior Principal Agile Program Manager, you will leverage your deep understanding of agile principles and modern software product development process to shape how we work, learn, and innovate. You leverage your Agile management skillset to continuously evolve product development process to reduce waste and improve efficiency. You will also help build strong communities and shape our culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You'll Do It

• Ensure clear alignment of work against objective and key results/goals to empower product teams to deliver key results. In partnership with Business Director/Business Technology Director.
• Facilitate coordination and collaboration of product area/families to maximize the flow of work across complex Products.
• Optimize the flow of work from ideation to delivery across Product Families
• Dependency Management across product area/family to guide the org to deliver high quality value.
• Removal of systemic impediments.
• Foster adoption of the CraftWorx/single Agile Way of Working standards and contribute to the Discover body of knowledge on our patterns and practices.
• Leverages metrics to derive insights, continuously identify and drive improvement opportunities to fruition across the product family.
• Be the champion of Agile delivery practices within a Product Family, and a thought leader in the Discover Technology Academy (DTA) on Agile practices for the enterprise.
• Partner with the Tech Anchors, Scrum Masters, SPO, PO's and BTD's to drive maturity of our CraftWorx practices within a product family, supported by DTA
• Teach, mentor and coach their product family to mature product team practices in alignment with DTA playbooks.
• Building community, foster inter-team collaboration with a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement across the entire Product Area.
• You do not need to know your audience to be comfortable and meet the audience needs.
• Confident in facilitating with little reparation or advanced warning, as you intuitively know what works well in different contexts and you can draw upon many different facilitation techniques targeted for your audience.
• Has a comprehensive understanding of facilitation skills and is able to use them to address complex problems or situations. Your toolbox consists of variety of participatory decision making, collaborative, visual and kinesthetic facilitation techniques both for large and small groups. They are also able to mentor and coach others in facilitation skills.
• You are a sought-after expert to facilitate outside your domain area
• You are sought after to mentor others in effective facilitation, and you grow facilitation competency more broadly.

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors in Information Technology or related
• 8+ years Agile or related experience

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• 10+ years Agile or related experience
• Strong communication skills

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Oct-23-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $103,000.00 to $174,200.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)
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