Senior Agilist
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About the Role
The Senior Agilist plays a pivotal role in driving Agile transformation, delivery excellence, and organizational effectiveness across complex business and technology initiatives within Payments.
Responsibilities
Lead Agile transformation initiatives that improve organizational agility, delivery predictability, and business outcomes.
Coach leaders, Product Managers, and delivery teams on Agile principles, Lean thinking, product-centric operating models, and continuous improvement.
Drive adoption and maturity of Agile practices across multiple teams, products, and organizational boundaries.
Foster an environment of accountability, transparency, innovation, and servant leadership.
Partner with Product, Business, and Technology leaders to align strategic objectives with execution plans.
Enable teams to optimize flow, reduce impediments, and improve value delivery.
Guide teams through backlog management, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews, and outcome-based execution.
Coach senior leaders on organizational design, Agile operating models, governance, and change adoption.
Identify organizational barriers impacting team performance and recommend sustainable solutions.
Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, leadership forums, and strategic alignment events.
Support leadership teams in defining and measuring objectives, outcomes, and success metrics.
Develop and monitor Agile performance metrics, OKRs, flow metrics, and operational health indicators.
Utilize data-driven insights to identify improvement opportunities and increase delivery effectiveness.
Measure organizational maturity and guide continuous improvement initiatives.
Establish practices that create sustainable, high-performing teams and organizations.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure delivery practices meet regulatory and governance expectations.
Simplify governance processes while maintaining appropriate oversight and controls.
Support evidence management, audit readiness, and operational risk mitigation efforts.
Build strong partnerships with executive leadership, Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and business partners.
Influence without authority across highly matrixed environments.
Drive alignment among competing priorities while maintaining focus on customer and business outcomes.
Communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications
Advanced knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, or other scaling methodologies.
Experience supporting product-centric operating models and customer-focused delivery practices.
Expertise in Agile portfolio management, dependency management, and strategic planning.
Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead executive workshops, planning events, and organizational alignment sessions.
Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, and related Agile planning platforms.
Proven ability to develop and leverage metrics, OKRs, flow measures, and performance indicators to drive decision-making.
Experience working within highly regulated environments, including financial services.
Agile certifications such as SPC, SAFe Program Consultant, SPC6, RTE, CST, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent.
Leadership Competencies
Executive presence and the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
Strong consulting, coaching, and facilitation skills.
Strategic thinking and business acumen.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead through change.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for developing people and organizations.
Location Expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
Benefits
Our benefits package includes:
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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