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Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

As a Principal Agile Program Manager, you will leverage your deep understanding of agile principles and modern software product development process to shape how we work, learn, and innovate. You leverage your Agile management skillset to continuously evolve product development process to reduce waste and improve efficiency. You will also help build strong communities and shape our culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. 

Responsibilities 

• Optimizes the flow of work across multiple agile teams throughout product development life cycle 
• Motivates and enables others to take accountability to streamline product delivery process, efficiently manage large and complex products launches across multiple teams 
• Leverages data and metrics to derive insights and continuously identify improvement opportunities. Drive these improvement opportunities to fruition 
• Be the champion of Agile Software Product development processes within a Value Stream and mentor Product Owners and Engineers to follow agile practices 
• Leads the charge on building community, foster inter-team collaboration and the culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement across the entire Value Stream 
• Collaborates with Discover Technology Academy to create, contribute and teach through immersive learning experiences that support delivery of products, services, solutions and capabilities 
• Play a key role in federating Discover Tech Academy Dojo Factory capabilities 

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

• Bachelors – Computer Science or Business or related 
• 6+ Years – Project Management, Agile or Related 

Preferred Qualifications 

If we had our say, we’d also look for: 

• 8+ Years – Project Management, Agile or Related 
• Strong Jira experience 
• Intermediate or Advanced experience with Tableau 
• Strong Jira Align experience. 
• Expert in Scrum framework with advanced experience in scaling frameworks (ex: SAFe). 
• Strong analytics experience synthesizing data into compelling messages for change to Product and Engineering stakeholders. 
• Expertise in creating software delivery plans: breaking down larger concepts into consumable work and working with engineering to size and sequence work for delivery. 
• Experience building continuous improvement roadmaps for area(s) supported. 
• Knowledge of Software Capitalization and R&E Tax Credit laws and how to apply them to building software. 
• Understands need for architectural runway in software development and proactively seeks ways to optimize work flowing through the system.  
• Strong experience engaging and partnering with a PMO governance body. 
• Ability to roll up sleeves and dig deep into the work; have intimate knowledge of- delivery in area supported.  
• Expert in identifying dependencies and risks between epics/features and knowing how to effectively document them and drive them to conclusion.  
• Excellent communication with ability to effectively influence partners and stakeholders. 
• Familiarity with release management processes. 
• Constantly keeps (regulatory) compliance top of mind in everything you do.  
• Understands DevOps mindset and seeks ways to improve the CICD delivery pipeline. 

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