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Job Description

At Invesco Agility Office, we are dedicated to driving Agile transformation within our engineering practice organization. Our team is passionate about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation. We work closely with cross-functional teams to implement Agile methodologies and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality products. Join us in our mission to enhance agility and efficiency across the organization.

Your Role

As a Principal Scrum Master, you will support one or more Kanban teams contributing to improve the flow of value delivery. You will act as a servant leader and coach for an Agile Team, educating the team in Kanban and ensuring that the agreed Lean-Agile process is being followed. This includes managing flow, ceremonies, estimating, writing stories, WIP limits, explicit policies, getting work done, removing impediments, acceptance criteria, understanding roles, and fostering collaboration within and with other teams. You will help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate, assisting the team in meeting their delivery goals. As a servant leader, you will enable teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective Lean-Agile practices, mastering the art of agile metrics.

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Serving as a member of the Agile Team.
• Applying systems thinking.
• Supporting the Product Owner with backlog replenishment.
• Coaching the team and ensuring that the team follows Agile principles and practices.
• Coaching the team on Kanban values and principles.
• Facilitating processes and meetings.
• Facilitating problem-solving.
• Supporting the team to communicate impediments outside of team control to leadership.
• Maintaining the metrics framework.
• Bringing in a culture of agility and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring action items from retrospectives are tracked to closure.
• Facilitating and coaching the team on Kanban practices such as:
  • Improving visualization.
  • Improving the flow of value by adopting lean principles.
  • Defining explicit policies and ensuring they are followed.
  • Defining and improving on WIP limits.
  • Defining work item types and classes of services.
  • Driving change and continuous improvements using data and metrics.
  • Identifying bottlenecks and coaching for their removal.
  • Maintaining JIRA health and ensuring that metrics can be pulled from JIRA.

The Experience You Bring:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field is required. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 7+ years of related experience working in technology.
• Minimum of 5 years working as a Scrum Master and coaching teams on Agile, Scrum, and Kanban principles and practices.
• Minimum of 1 year as a Kanban Lead coaching the team on Kanban principles and practices.
• Familiarity with software development.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where production releases occur in 2-4-week durations.
• Understanding and use of agile metrics to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Good exposure to sizing techniques used in the agile process, such as Story Points.
• Experience in maturity assessment and continuous improvements.
• Expertise in the usage of Jira and JQL.
• Certification preferred: Certified as Kanban Management Professional, SAFe Scrum Master 6.0.

Full Time / Part Time

Worker Type

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office. 

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally. 

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).  

What’s in it for you? 

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world. 

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to: 

• Competitive Compensation 
• Flexible, Hybrid Work 
• 30 days’ Annual Leave + Public Holidays 
• Life Insurance 
• Retirement Planning 
• Group Personal Accident Insurance 
• Medical Insurance for Employee and Family 
• Annual Health Check-up 
• 26 weeks Maternity Leave 
• Paternal Leave 
• Adoption Leave 
• Near site Childcare Facility 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Study Support 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan 
• ESG Commitments and Goals 
• Business Resource Groups 
• Career Development Programs 
• Mentoring Programs 
• Invesco Cares 
• Dress for your Day 

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence. 

To know more about us 

About Invesco: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html 

About our Culture: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html 

About our D&I policy: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.html 

About our CR program: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html 

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