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ID #12196293
State Illinois
City Riverwoods
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source Make Corporation
Showed 2021-04-13
Date 2021-04-12
Deadline 2021-06-11
Category Et cetera
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Agile Portfolio Manager- No third parties plz

Illinois, Riverwoods, 60015 Riverwoods USA

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Agile Portfolio Manager#SLP –32466

Location: RIVERWOODS, IL

Duration: 9 Months+

Description:The Lean Agile Portfolio Manager will provide oversight to portfolio level value-driven governance for SAFe Agile product deliveries across the IT Shared Services organization.The position will play a crucial role in ensuring that all Information Technology portfolio investments are aligned to the Payments business strategy and meet short/long term business needs and value expectations. This person will also drive Portfolio-level Information Delivery and provide Value Risk Oversight by partnering with IT Delivery Leads and Release Train Engineers to define, analyze, and report out on portfolio-level technology and business risks, metrics, and information related to value delivery.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Portfolio Value Alignment & Agile Governance
  • Govern portfolio efforts in a Scaled Agile environment
  • Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to IT product deliveries
  • Partner with IT Delivery Leads to develop and review lean business cases, linking business benefits to IT investments for funding and allocation requests
  • Ensure Scaled Agile governance processes and decisions are applied consistently
  • Drive and track cross-functional and/or cross-ART dependencies for internal milestone completion

Portfolio Transparency, Metrics, & Risk:
  • Oversee the creation and review of key metrics, outcomes, and reporting related to key milestones and objectives
  • Assess and Report the health of product deliveries with objectivity, accuracy, and transparency
  • Ensure that appropriate stakeholders are engaged in risk identification and mitigation
  • Predict and identify risks/opportunities from interdependencies of product deliveries
  • Team Leadership
  • Support the identification/removal of barriers to delivery
  • Promote the pace and energy within the team and leading by example
  • Strong commitment and support for the success of the team and is outcomes

Highly Desired Candidate Qualities:
  • Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with diverse leaders
  • Proven experience managing effective IT governance in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other agile delivery
  • Able to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong ability to design and implement dashboards; ability to analyze data and present it in a way that tells a story
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, can handle the unexpected with flexibility
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
  • Ability to work with a collaborative approach and build trust with others

Position Requirements:
  • 10+ years of experience in managing multiple information systems projects
  • 5+ years of experience in an agile / scrum environment with a demonstrated appreciation for large enterprise standards
  • Proven track record of managing a cross-functional process or IT delivery team in a large Enterprise environment
  • Well versed with Scaled Agile Framework’s Portfolio Management methodology
  • Proficient knowledge of Agile/DevOps/Program Mgmt. Lifecycle Methodologies & Standards
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and analytical skills
  • Experience working in a geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-group
  • Knowledge and experience using Jira and Microsoft Office

Other Requirements:
  • SAFe SPC certification preferred
  • Knowledge of Financial industry is preferred

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