Senior Vice President, Agile Coach
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting‑edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.
Role Overview
A Principal Agile Coach helps teams across lines of business adopt and improve Agile methods and practices to solve complex business improvement problems. An enterprise‑level coach operates at a systematic level and helps teams rethink and change the way they go about development. Agile coaches act as servant leaders to the team, supporting and evangelizing best practices for agile and ways of working. A Principal Agile Coach possesses experience and expertise acquired by supporting a business line with expertise in cross‑functional team leadership.
Responsibilities
* Work with System and solution Architect/Engineering and teams to build and maintain the technical foundation for real‑time user experience validation, feedback, and tracking statistics.
* Share user‑experience guidelines and educate developers on the best practices of maintaining good UI design, ensuring understanding occurs through change process.
* Assist test engineers and the System team with user‑experience testing and testing automation.
* Attend iteration planning, backlog refinement meetings, system demos, and solution demos.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree in business or technical‑related discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred.
* Experience providing agile guidance (strategic advice and hands‑on guides) to senior stakeholders; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
* Strong knowledge of Lean‑Agile principles, practices, frameworks, and methods.
* Strong knowledge and hands‑on experience with typical agile work‑management tools (e.g., Jira).
* Understanding of the company’s organizational model, structure, and Agile journey history.
* Effective facilitation and teaching methods.
* Coaching and mentoring approaches, including the distinction between the two.
* Ability to drive decisions and resolve conflicts across multiple parties.
* Strong problem‑solving skills; experience successfully running agile delivery of varying size and complexity.
Benefits
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.
BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – under‑represented racial and ethnic groups, females, individuals with disabilities, protected veterans.
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