Director, It Governance: Scrum / Agile

What You'll Do:
This role is accountable for driving the Agile transformation across the enterprise. This is a leadership role that will drive operational success and continuous improvement around Agile methodologies. This role requires advanced experience in Agile frameworks with practical experience in an Agile role at both the program and team levels with demonstrated ability to adopt Agile principles, mindset, practices, and methodologies. This role requires previous people management and team leadership experience. This role provides management, leadership and will drive the team to teach, mentor and advise teams, product owners, business stakeholders on agile practices and design strategies for delivery teams to improve and mature their use of Agile principles and practices.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Drive efforts to guide and coach delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work.
• Directly manage a team of Scrum Masters deployed across several product teams and partner with managed service provider
• Hold Scrum masters accountable to roles and responsibilities and create a governance structure to monitor performance.
• Partner with senior leaders across the organization to develop best practices and evolve Agile capabilities with the changing needs of the business.
• Be responsible for "building" of Agile teams/squads.
• Provide support to the Product Owner and Delivery Team, and lead by example.
• Participate in and lead discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Drive a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
• Continually improve Scrum Master skills through education and engaging with fellow Scrum Masters
• Work with Product Owner and Team to plan and execute project implementations
• Be responsible for identification and mitigation of project risks
• Participate in and lead regular assessments of a team Agile Maturity and uses the results to guide them to improved performance
• Work with Product Owner and Delivery Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'
• Drive internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information radiation
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data
• Drive daily stand-ups, facilitate story grooming, coordinate sprint demos, planning and retrospectives

Supervisory Responsibilities:
Manages a team
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] Understands Agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
• [Required] Experience with agile transformations, building Agile teams and implementing Agile "from scratch"
• [Required] Previous experience leading teams and driving career development of direct reports
• [Required] Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (diverse team sizes, organizations, cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• [Required] Experience with Scaled Agile (SAFe) / Scrum of Scrums or equivalent
• [Required] Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• [Required] Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• [Required] Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• [Required] The proven ability to be self-motivated and a self-starter
• [Required] Ability to work under minimal supervision
• [Required] Demonstrated experience and success with organizational process design and implementation
• [Required] Strong background in ITIL and Agile methodologies
• [Required] Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• [Required] Strong customer service mindset
• [Required] Proven experience in project and program management
• [Required] Assist with response to regulatory audits regarding process flows
• [Required] Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting
• [Required] Experience in sprint & release planning, running demos and retrospectives
• [Required] Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• [Required] Ability to review large amounts of data and analyze and spot trends and provide analysis and insights
• [Required] Experience consolidating data from multiple data sources

Technical Skills:

• [Required] Experience with Agile PLM tools like JIRA, Portfolio for JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, etc.
• [Required] Proven ability to work with toolsets including, but not limited to Jira, MS Project, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• [Required] Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and IT systems design
• [Required] Familiarity within a ticketing system such as ServiceNow

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or 12+ years equivalent work experience
• [Preferred] Expert knowledge of Agile/Scrum principles and practices
• [Required] Experience as a Scrum Master for a minimum of 10 years for a software development team that was applying Agile/Scrum principles and practices
• [Required] 7+ years of experience with JIRA
• [Required] Ability to anticipate issues based on experience to help the team avoid or resolve the issues

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] Scrum Master Certified preferred
• [Preferred] ITIL Foundations certification preferred
• [Preferred] PMP certified preferred

Who We Are
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
What We Offer
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education.
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely.
Generous PTO and Parental leave
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer