Senior Agile Champion

DescriptionYou Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.Focus:Digital Workplace is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Sr. Agile Champion with an enquiring mind and tons of energy to be responsible for the planning, coordination, and status reporting from initiation to implementation of engineering projects. The candidate will achieve team productivity and agility by demonstrating Agile/Scrum concepts and principles. We are looking for someone who understands technology and can showcase servant leadership qualities to help scrum teams deliver at its best.Responsibilities:

Responsible for delivering development projects or programs and platform enhancements

Facilitates scrum ceremonies, daily stand-ups and DOR sessions with delivery teams

Works with the product owners to develop a prioritize team backlog

Support product owners by ensuring regular backlog refinement activities occur for team

Ensures resource dependency alignment across teams

Execute the Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategy, vision and roadmap

Generate and facilitate approval of digital Agile Charter every PI

Support product owners by ensuring process documentation and flowcharts are created and maintained

Keep updated with latest SDLC Agile compliance standards and audit points

Ensure team Confluence site is maintained and reflects Sprint changes

Create data-driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team level metrics

Raises impediments, handles risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs

Identifies and tracks key project achievements

Cultivates, coaches, and communicates an Agile mindset

Education & Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in related field required

3-5 years relevant experience with a demonstrated track record of growingresponsibility

Certification(s) in agile or scrum a plus

Experience with Jira a plus

Knowledge/Skills:

Familiarity with ITIL/ITSM best practices

Be flexible and adapt to change easily and often

Technical acumen and ability to understand the team’s technical platforms and applications

Facilitate technical solution alignment discussions

Coach team in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets

Live the Agile and SAFe Values and Principles

Encourage diversity of thought and demonstrate an open mindset

Foster a culture of trust and leadership in others

Champion a learning culture to drive continuous improvements and standardization

Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo

Promotes compliance with SDLC standards across the team

Ensures data integrity for the team within the Agile Management tools

QualificationsSalary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefitsThe above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.Job: TechnologiesPrimary Location: US-New York-New YorkOther Locations: US-Arizona-PhoenixSchedule Full-timeReq ID: 24013831