Senior Vice President, Agile Coach

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

Job Description

Senior Vice President, Agile Framework Lead

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Agile Framework Lead to join our Enterprise Change Office. This role is located in Manchester, HYBRID,

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Operate as an Agile SME. Contribute to design of a bespoke agile operating model. Help solve systematic problems with operationalization in structured manner. Facilitates implementation of long-term strategy across the entire organization. Supports iterative development of BNY’s change policies, framework, and procedures
• Review and advise on tailored Agile rollout plans for LoB/CF
• Participate in and enhance Agile Coach Communities of Practice (COPs)
• Coach and mentor LoB/CF agile leads, senior managers and product managers in the Lean and scaled-agile mindset, principles, practices, behaviours, and values needed to transform the organization.
• Conduct trainings and workshops at LoB and Enterprise level. Delivers training classes (virtually and in-person as applicable) for large numbers of people
• Champions continuous learning culture to refine BNY agile operating model, alongside increasing knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation across the Enterprise. Coordinate and encourage change and continuous improvements to increase the team's productivity and quality of all deliverables
• Design agile performance metrics and key risk indicators
• Experience in the securities or financial services industry would be a plus
  
  

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Change Management, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required
• Relevant years of experience, with experience as an Agile Coach, and working directly with multiple agile teams
• Deep expertise in Agile methodologies and frameworks. Expert in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other formal software engineering frameworks and practices
• Proven experience in leading complex initiatives, coaching, and training; formal training experience with large, cross-functional teams is preferred
• Ability to take ambiguous topics and translate into actionable plans working with multiple business, operational and technical stakeholders
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills
• Preferred to have Agile certifications (e.g. SAFe SA, PM/PO, SPC, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO and Kanban)
• Preferred experience with Agile work management tools like Planview and Jira
  
  

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023
  
  

Our Benefits And Rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

About Us

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments & safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.