Director Of Agile Practices

The S&P Global CI team seeks to add a key member to our leadership. This person will play a pivotal role in our strategic transformation from product to platform-centric software engineering practices and our transition from ScrumAFall/Adhoc development to Agile development methodology. These efforts are occurring within the broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend our market leadership, enhance customer experience, and implement next-generation software technology. In short, it represents an exciting and visible opportunity to join our team during a dynamic period of fundamental organizational and operational changes.
The Right Person Will Get To Work With Amazingly Smart People To Help Foster Our Transformation And In The Delivery Of Key Strategic Initiatives And Product
Key Expectations

• Our leadership is looking to add an individual who cultivates deep and highly effective relationships within a dynamic environment spanning many teams and efforts. You’re a natural, who inspires trust and respect across a variety of disciplines. Check your title at the door – you lead through influence.
• It’s not just about managing the day-to-day activities, either. You’ll be asked to help manage the strategic planning processes, participating in, and in some cases leading, conversations with key stakeholders to develop product roadmap and creating detail project plans (including resource planning). You’ll facilitate alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture teams.
• Finally, the software engineering VPs/Directors seeks a trusted advisor, facilitator and creative problem solver who will monitor, evaluate and continuously strive to improve the organization. You’ll be implementing continuous improvements to the project management process, and you’ll work to extend the benefits of your leadership beyond the core CI teams, sharing process frameworks, tools and best practices that may be adopted throughout the enterprise.
• We are looking for a “coach” who will identify, train, and develop our next generation of scrum masters and project managers. You will have a vested interest in their professional development and will ensure their successful integration into our project teams. You’ll serve as a visible leader and advocate for our broader transition to Agile/Scrum development methodology, and you will ensure that the methodology is exercised consistently, appropriately and productively among many teams. With your extensive interpersonal skills, you’ll engage and energize project teams to achieve aggressive goals.
• You know that it’s not about the tools but agree that tools can help, so you’ll leverage our investment in Microsoft Azure DevOps (“ADO”) to measure demand and effort. With your command of VSTS and its reporting capabilities, you’ll be a wiz at publishing relevant and actionable reporting at both the project team and executive-level. And because you don’t want others to have to take their eye off the ball, you’ll work to reduce the overhead (real and perceived) required by the team for effective demand and portfolio management disciplines.
• We need someone to oversee the demand management pipeline, implementing disciplines to ensure that the product backlogs remain current, transparent and prioritized. You’ll own the status reporting and measurement efforts and will keep your finger on the pulse of our activities, evaluating risks and communicating status to upper management and stakeholders.
• You’re going to be asked to drive the established portfolio management process across the organization. We need to provide senior executives with forward and backward looking visibility into resource allocation and value realization, and you’ll be front-and-center in this effort.

Here are the kinds of skills we are looking for:

• Passion and energy. Because you love what you do, you bring infectious enthusiasm to all your endeavors. You always perform at your absolute best and see new challenges as an opportunity to contribute, make an impact, and grow.
• Commitment. At S&P Global CI, commitment to customer satisfaction and technology excellence permeates everything we do. You care tremendously about delighting our users and ensuring that our market and technical leadership is sustained and extended. You are your harshest critic and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team’s scope.
• Superior teaching skills. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through mentoring, teaching, and reviewing, you’ll grow a team of dedicated scrum masters and cultivate the skills needed for software engineers, quality assurance analysts, and business analysts to assist their teams onboarding to scrum.
• Engineering Excellence. You have at least 10 years of experience in a variety of contexts during which you’ve contributed to the construction of scalable, extensible software solutions and systems. These contributions could take many forms – analysis, development, testing and/or project management. You understand technology and possess a passion for excellence.
• Bias towards action. You believe that speed and quality aren’t mutually exclusive. You’ve shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way — and you’re comfortable making mistakes, provided you learn from them.

Qualifications

• Results oriented. Detailed oriented. Driven. Take initiative without being asked.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence. Ability to influence and motivate people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships.
• Managed Scaled Agile transformation: Value Stream, Scaled approach, establish agile release trains, scaled agile coaching, & training
• Hands on experience in Lean portfolio management
• Possess overall understanding of software/product development lifecycle process.
• Facilitation of Big room events especially PI planning; Some level of facilitator certification is nice to have.
• Scaled Agile certifications especially Scaled Agile Practitioner certification (SPC)
• Must have at least five years’ experience managing people in software engineering using Agile/Scrum.
• 5 years of SPC- scaled agile transformation & Agile training
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with a keen understanding of respective strengths and weaknesses and ability to guide others on the journey from Waterfall to Agile.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• At least three years’ experience in project, portfolio, or demand management, preferably in an environment in which you played a role in establishing these disciplines.

Compensation/Benefits Information
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $100,200 - $205,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.
This role is eligible to receive S&P Global benefits.
For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires.
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. 
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
10 - Officials or Managers (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), HUMRES103.2 - Middle Management Tier II (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 289660
Posted On: 2023-07-23
Location: New York, New York, United States