Job Description

Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Manager, Agile Program Lead

In an Agile leadership role, you will play the role of a Release Train Engineer, a Program Delivery Lead, or master/mentor in the Agile Scrum and Kanban delivery space.

As an Agile Program Lead, you will leverage industry proven frameworks and drive the appropriate Agile methodology focused on predictable, quality delivery and driving continuous improvement of the organization. In this role, you will optimize productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the programs goals and by preserving the team's ability to rapidly respond to change.

General Responsibilities:

Cross Team Delivery

* Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross team, cross department)

* Drive cross team, ART and departmental impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination

* Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity

* Understand domain architecture and targets to identify upstream and downstream dependencies and to support the program in risk management

* Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments

* Help establish governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward empowered teams

* Ensure that teams and program are well managed in delivery controls and compliance to minimize operational and reputational risk

* Ensures business and technical leaders maintain and communicate product vision and roadmaps

* Partners with technical leaders and others to support the program or organizations automation (testing, pipelines, deployments) DevOps journey

Coaching:

* Teach, mentor, and coach teams, Scrum Masters, ARTs and Product partners on emerging Agile and Lean methods

* Utilizes feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and partners with others to coach the program to continuously improve

* Fosters innovation with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve program delivery

* Coaches the program to improve collaboration and self-organization

* Acts as an Agile mentor or coach to any Agile role or stakeholder

* Agile & Technical Learning: Actively seeks and leads a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community

BasicQualifications:

* At least 7 years of experience in Technology Delivery (software or infrastructure)

* At least 3 years of Agile experience

* At least 2 years of people management experience

* At least 1 year of Agile coaching experience

Preferred Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree

* 4+ years of experience with Jira or Jira Align

* Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, or Six Sigma certification

* Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification, or Project Management Institutes Agile Certified Professional (ACP), or SAFe certifications

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.