Description

Join our team to foster agile methodologies, encouraging a culture of innovation and high performance in a leading financial institution.

As an Agility Lead in Corporate Technology, you will play a significant role as a champion for the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices within our teams. Leveraging your deep knowledge of product development methodologies and Agile principles, use your expert guidance, mentorship, and support to teams to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance. As a recognized subject matter expert, put your knowledge to use to work on complex issues, exercise considerable judgment, and make impactful decisions that shape the operational and business direction of your sub-function. Your leadership, communication, and coaching skills will be instrumental in empowering teams to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently and effectively, while continuously adapting to changing requirements and priorities.

Job responsibilities

• Establish and coach portfolio-consistent Scrum/Kanban practices, definitions of ready/done, and team operating rhythms
• Lead portfolio cadence including cross-team sprint planning, mid-sprint syncs, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and integrated end-to-end demos
• Drive empirical process control through transparent backlogs, measurable sprint goals, and continuous improvement
• Define and maintain a single source of truth for portfolio health (predictability, throughput, flow efficiency, WIP, quality, risk) with dashboards and alerting for variance, bottlenecks, and flow interruptions
• Facilitate regular delivery health reviews with product and engineering leadership, driving data-informed interventions
• Build and maintain cross-team dependency maps and a living program board; perform critical-path analysis and negotiate resequencing and capacity shifts to protect milestones; track dependency lead time and mean time to unblock
• Orchestrate rolling wave planning and capacity-based prioritization across platforms, data products, analytics, and AI/ML; manage shared services and enabling teams to optimize system throughput
• Run proactive risk discovery (risk/controls checkpoints, pre-mortems, flow diagnostics), define escalation paths and decision rights, and ensure corrective actions are owned, time-bound, and measured for effectiveness
• Connect strategy and objectives and key results (OKRs) to backlog and capacity; make trade-offs transparent (scope, quality, schedule, cost) and align product, platform, and data governance roadmaps
• Design and execute a staged change plan with stakeholder mapping, enablement, coaching, reinforcement, and communities of practice to sustain ways of working
• Create an integrated communications calendar and coordinate ceremonies, workshops and checkpoints; manage cumulative change load and gate new initiatives based on readiness, risk and absorption capacity

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Minimum 10 years in agile product delivery, including 4 years leading cross-portfolio orchestration in data, analytics, or product environments.
• Demonstrated success running Scrum at scale and implementing portfolio health monitoring, dependency management, and risk escalation.
• Proven ability to translate strategy and objectives and key results (OKRs) into executable, capacity-constrained delivery plans.
• Experience designing and executing enterprise change strategies and integrated communication plans.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills across product, engineering, data governance, and risk/compliance partners.
• Expertise in lean portfolio management, modern product practices, DevOps/continuous delivery, and flow metrics.
• Proficiency with delivery tooling for backlogs, dashboards, alerts, and program boards (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalents).
• Ability to perform critical-path analysis, capacity planning, and scenario-based sequencing.
• Track record of driving measurable improvements in throughput, quality, predictability, and value realization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication tailored to executive and technical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced degree in engineering, data science, or business.
• Certifications such as Certified Scrum Professional, SAFe/Lean Portfolio Management, or equivalent.
• Experience in data platforms, data products, data governance, data publishing/processing, and applied AI/ML.
• Hands-on experience establishing communities of practice and coaching change agents.
• Familiarity with risk and control frameworks in regulated environments.
• Experience with objectives and key results (OKRs) implementation at scale.
• Demonstrated success orchestrating cross-team integrated demos and end-to-end delivery in complex data ecosystems.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

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.