Consultant, Agile Leader - NF
About the position If you’re all about delivering technology solutions to support a company providing outstanding care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology may be place for you! Our industry-leading technology workforce adopts an agile work environment and a collaborative and inclusive culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! As an Agile Leader, you'll facilitate a robust, self-organized agile technology team responsible for building and/or enhancing software with high quality. You’ll collaborate with partners to deliver objectives, using appropriate software delivery practices (e.g., scrum, iterative, Lean) to continuously improve software delivery efficiency, and quality. You will play a key role in guiding delivery from story card creation to implementation and participate in user communities to learn and implement optimal practices.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates team cadence (e.g., retrospective, daily standups and show-and-tell meetings) to encourage collaboration, communication and feedback within the team; promotes a learning culture and challenges the team to be innovative.
- Removes impediments to the team’s progress; communicates obstacles requiring outside resolution to the partners.
- Identifies risks and issues that might have an impact on delivery and facilitates a mitigation strategy for risks.
- Collaborates with partners to prioritize the backlog to maximize value and create clarity on the team activities.
- Collaborates with the agile technology team to provide guidance to the team in the areas of analysis, design, development and testing, and ensures that standard methodologies are used.
- Guides and enables automation, software engineering practices, such as DevSecOps, to improve quality, productivity, efficiency and consistency of processes and product
- Monitors team metrics, such as time to market (speed), quality and productivity and progress using historical data, observations and experiences to achieve team goals and commitments; leads the team to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Improves team delivery capabilities continuously by adopting Nationwide Agile Practices, collaborating and coaching.
- Provides a technical voice on the team to challenge decisions such as design approach, estimates, etc.
- May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
- Agile methodologies
- Lean and DevSecOps principles
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong leadership, organization, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Having prior experience as an Agile Leader is required for this position.
- Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis.
- Project management experience is preferred.
- Ability to champion agile delivery over fixed practices, flexibility over rigidity, coaching, empowerment and influence over dictation and automation over manual processes.
- Confirmed knowledge in software development.
- Proven software engineering expertise using Lean, agile and DevSecOps principles.
- Thorough understanding of agile technology frameworks and software engineering practices.
- Consistent record of optimally leading, empowering and building engaged teams.
- Experience developing and maintaining strong business partnerships.
- Effective communication skills.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and decision making skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Test Automation
- Test Strategy
- Technical Analysis
- Exposure to ETL tools like Informatica or Talend
- Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision
- life insurance
- short and long term disability coverage
- paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
- nine paid holidays
- 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
- 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
- 401(k) with company match
- company-paid pension plan
- business casual attire
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