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The Agile Coach is a highly visible and impactful position that will serve to shepherd GFT's technical organization through a multi-year modern agile transformation. Along the way you will work with our nascent agile delivery teams and existing team of Agile Coaches to build proven industry practices and scalable processes for agile product delivery. In addition, you will coach our delivery teams to enable continuous improvement, provide transparency for agile transformation risks and overall progress to stakeholders, and act as a change agent to reinforce the agile mindset shift.
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Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Global Functions Technology (GFT) is a diverse organization comprised of more than 15,000 talented professionals with some of the brightest minds - all working collectively to realize Citi's Vision of growth and economic progress. As a group, we partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Human Resources and other Global Functions teams to drive the delivery of innovative technology solutions using common data, data analysis, and platforms. Our technology operates in real-time environments, capturing and managing market, transaction, and accounting data, as well as the data from millions of customers daily. Our solutions cover all products and geographies in which Citi does business. We are the backbone for reporting across the bank, satisfying our regulatory obligations, enabling our businesses to be nimbler and helping to safeguard customer assets through highly effective controls.
GFT is accountable for delivering end-to-end application design and development and providing infrastructure service advocacy to the Global Functions across Citi's lines of business and regions. As part of Citi's broad transformation strategy, GFT is presently undergoing a large-scale, multi-year Agile transformation across our 16K-person organization. In the context of that transformation, we will need proven, sound, and solid software engineers, agile practitioners, and technical team managers to drive the success of our nascent agile teams.
Who You Will Work With
As part of a modernized financial technology company, our Engineers are hyper-focused on disrupting the market through bringing to life the art of the possible for our business. We have passion for building strategies, designing solutions, and creating innovative products to help our business solve their most complex and interesting problems. We surround our technologists with thought provoking problems, emerging technologies, and an immersive, innovative culture. The breadth in capabilities assures that Citi can underpin teams with what they need to deliver against an enterprise-level forward-thinking vision. We are risk managers trained to take controlled risks to advance our technology and business objectives. Put simply, we collectively design, build, implement and support business solutions and services to help solve complex problems to drive business value.
About Citi
Citi is a preeminent banking partner for institutions with cross-border needs, a global pioneer in wealth management and a valued personal bank in its home market of the United States. Citi does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, providing corporations, governments, investors, institutions, and people with a broad range of financial products and services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve globally from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote people based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress collectively.
Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://blog.citigroup.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi.
Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Technology Project Management
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Tampa Florida United States
Primary Location Salary Range:
$87,280.00 - $130,920.00
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
View the "EEO is the Law" poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement.
View the EEO Policy Statement.
View the Pay Transparency Posting
The Agile Coach is a highly visible and impactful position that will serve to shepherd GFT's technical organization through a multi-year modern agile transformation. Along the way you will work with our nascent agile delivery teams and existing team of Agile Coaches to build proven industry practices and scalable processes for agile product delivery. In addition, you will coach our delivery teams to enable continuous improvement, provide transparency for agile transformation risks and overall progress to stakeholders, and act as a change agent to reinforce the agile mindset shift.
Responsibilities:
- Effect change by acting as a guide for agile teams during GFT's multi-year agile transformation
- Work with stakeholders, existing Agile Coaches, and functional leads to define and execute upon strategies for adopting agile ways of working
- Perform hands-on coaching activities for your teams, including but not limited to:
- Advise leaders on how to organize, mobilize, and launch agile teams,
- Influence process execution by guiding product owners and mentoring team members,
- Drive continuous process improvement strategies enabling efficient, effective, sustainable and measurable delivery
- Understanding of Citi's risk goals to coach teams to reduce through test automation, minimizing technical debt and increasing quality
- Report on patterns and anti-patterns in intra-team agile dynamics:
- Identify patterns for reinforcement and opportunities for team growth
- Establish feedback loops enabling trust, psychological safety, transparency and customer feedback
- Design and lead training workshops on the pragmatics of Lean-Agile values, principles, and practices
- Collaborate with our client organizations to adopt sustainable Lean-Agile capabilities and processes
- Coach and mentor colleagues in agile values and principles
Qualifications
- Mindset consistent with Scrum Core Values: openness, respect, focus and commitment
- 3+ years working in an agile environment as a coach
- 3+ years working in an agile environment as a Product Owner, Scrum Master
- 5+ years working in an agile culture with deep understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Agile frameworks
- Demonstrated experience coaching at least 2 agile teams concurrently, through a multi-year agile transformation
- Exposure to a large-scale enterprise agile transformation with demonstrated experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other scaling frameworks and deep understanding of agile values and principles
- Demonstrated experience facilitating collaborative sessions, managing customer expectations, and ensuring work is aligned with the enterprise goals and objectives.
- Demonstrated experience in coaching to common practices to reduce risk with an understanding of compliance requirements for a Bank
- Understanding of the technical enablers of agile delivery and how they operate within an agile organization (e.g., CICD, DevOps)
- Expertise with agile tools suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams or similar agile management tooling
- Experience with agile testing and technical engineering techniques (TDD, BDD) and DevSecOps tools
- Scrum Master, and Product Owner certifications
- Coaching certification
Preferred Qualifications
- A passion for learning new technologies, and a desire for personal growth, through self-study, formal classes, or on-the-job training
- Active leadership in the agile community
Global Functions Technology (GFT) is a diverse organization comprised of more than 15,000 talented professionals with some of the brightest minds - all working collectively to realize Citi's Vision of growth and economic progress. As a group, we partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Human Resources and other Global Functions teams to drive the delivery of innovative technology solutions using common data, data analysis, and platforms. Our technology operates in real-time environments, capturing and managing market, transaction, and accounting data, as well as the data from millions of customers daily. Our solutions cover all products and geographies in which Citi does business. We are the backbone for reporting across the bank, satisfying our regulatory obligations, enabling our businesses to be nimbler and helping to safeguard customer assets through highly effective controls.
GFT is accountable for delivering end-to-end application design and development and providing infrastructure service advocacy to the Global Functions across Citi's lines of business and regions. As part of Citi's broad transformation strategy, GFT is presently undergoing a large-scale, multi-year Agile transformation across our 16K-person organization. In the context of that transformation, we will need proven, sound, and solid software engineers, agile practitioners, and technical team managers to drive the success of our nascent agile teams.
Who You Will Work With
As part of a modernized financial technology company, our Engineers are hyper-focused on disrupting the market through bringing to life the art of the possible for our business. We have passion for building strategies, designing solutions, and creating innovative products to help our business solve their most complex and interesting problems. We surround our technologists with thought provoking problems, emerging technologies, and an immersive, innovative culture. The breadth in capabilities assures that Citi can underpin teams with what they need to deliver against an enterprise-level forward-thinking vision. We are risk managers trained to take controlled risks to advance our technology and business objectives. Put simply, we collectively design, build, implement and support business solutions and services to help solve complex problems to drive business value.
About Citi
Citi is a preeminent banking partner for institutions with cross-border needs, a global pioneer in wealth management and a valued personal bank in its home market of the United States. Citi does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, providing corporations, governments, investors, institutions, and people with a broad range of financial products and services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve globally from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote people based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress collectively.
Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://blog.citigroup.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi.
Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Technology Project Management
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Tampa Florida United States
Primary Location Salary Range:
$87,280.00 - $130,920.00
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
View the "EEO is the Law" poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement.
View the EEO Policy Statement.
View the Pay Transparency Posting
