Agility Coach

**JOB DESCRIPTION** As an Agility Coach, you'll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Agility Coaches are open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people. They're proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Agility Coach drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Agility Lead is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes. Regulatory, Controls & Operation Risk Technology (RCORT) is part of Corporate Technology, which designs and develops business products required to identify and manage JPMC’s regulatory obligations and associated firm policies, a control environment designed to manage compliance and operational risks across all Lines of Business and Corporate Functions and the calculation of Regulatory Capital and projection of Operational Risk Losses. **Responsibilities**: - Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information - Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts - Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvement events - Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization - Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clears impediments for the team - Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instills the same in the team(s) you coach **Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills** - BS/BA degree or equivalent experience - Strong familiarity and adherence to core Agile values and principles - Experience as a practicing Agility Lead on a team - Exposure to modern engineering practices like Unit Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration - A mindset of servant leadership - An Agile mindset: "An attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning, a belief that we can all improve over time, that our abilities are not fixed but evolve with effort." - Linda Rising - Ability to coach and mentor - Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels - Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS - Leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s) **Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills** - Preferred tool experience: JIRA, JIRA Align, Lucid spark and Confluence **ABOUT US** J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs. **ABOUT THE TEAM** Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.