About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading global financial services company headquartered in San Francisco (United States). Wells Fargo has offices in over 30 countries and territories. Our business outside of the U.S. mostly focuses on providing banking services for large corporate, government and financial institution clients. We have worldwide expertise and services to help our customers improve earnings, manage risk, and develop opportunities in the global marketplace. Our global reach offers many opportunities for you to develop a career with Wells Fargo. Join our diverse and inclusive team where you will feel valued and inspired to contribute your unique skills and experience. We are looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. Help us build a better Wells Fargo. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.
Market Job Description
About the Role:
Responsible for establishing disciplined, effective agile teams which embrace and exhibit the agile mindset, by instructing the team or teams in agile principles and practices. Effectively leverages and combines different industry standard scaling concepts to specific business problems in a manner that best supports scaled agile values and principles, as well as Wells Fargo Vision and Values. Responsible for guiding teams on the first principle of Agile Coaching to deliver working software. Using domain knowledge, offers credible guidance to begin pipeline and team process, structure work, create value streams, and start/growth of scaling activities. Develops collaborative working relationships with multiple levels of managers, and steering committees with a focus on scaling agile within an organization or line of business. Helps leaders understand associated continuous delivery implications and the structure required to sufficiently support the software. Fosters maturation of agile mindset by asking powerful questions focusing on scaled program planning, scrum-of-scrums, identification of cross-program dependencies, scaled release planning, empirical data for decision models, and ultimate delivery of work efforts. Objectively informs/assists leaders in a non-biased manner to consider highly complex and long-term implications of transformation to self-governing teams; uses a systems view in facilitating impediment removal at the team/program/value stream level. Provides strategic thought leadership during engagements on approaches to overcome impediments to accelerated delivery; skillfully facilitates conflict resolution with and between teams. Fosters strong spirit of communication and collaboration between teams to align program goals, deliver final products, and ensure leadership transparency to impediments and progress.
Responsibilities
Drive the organization-wide Agile adoption strategy and rollout of strategic execution plans
Engage with 3 or more Agile teams and coach them through a journey of Agile adoption
Support and coach the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Coach the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
Coach the team on self-Organizing to fill in the gaps in the Agile/Scrum adoption
Develops and monitors metrics to track progress of Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts
Work with other Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the adoption of Agile Ways of Working in the organization
Coordinate and facilitate agile related community of practice activities to drive shared learnings across the enterprise
Develop agile training materials and process guidelines; deliver hands on training in support of enterprise-wide initiatives for agile development
Provide guidance to support migration from project centric organization to product centric organization
Essential Qualifications
12+ years IT delivery experience
8+ years of agile software development.
2+ years as a Scrum Master
3+ years as an Agile Coach applying several industry best practices.
Experience working with Agile Project Teams, Scrum Teams, kanban teams, and Product Teams
Desired Skills
- Relevant certification like Certified Agile Coach ICP-ACC, PMI-ACP, CSP, CSM, PSM
- Deep understanding of multiple Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, XP practices and DevOps Practices
- Capable of mentoring, facilitating and coaching application development teams to adopt Continuous Delivery practices such as TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, and other Lean/Agile Modeling Techniques
- Very good understanding of DevOps principles (CI/CD, testing automation, release automation)
- Demonstrated experience scaling initiatives leveraging modern agile frameworks such as safe less or DAD
Market Skills and Certifications
Scaled Agile certifications
We Value Diversity
At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law. We comply with all applicable laws in every jurisdiction in which we operate. |
