This position requires a hybrid work schedule, with the expectation to be in the Columbus, Ohio office two days each week.
Software Engineering Solutions Team within Nationwide Financial Technology is seeking a Consultant, Agile Leader. We are looking for someone that is excited and highly motivated and has a proven track record of delivering business outcomes. The ideal candidates should be grounded in Agile methodologies, Lean and DevSecOps principles and have strong verbal and written communication skills along with strong leadership, organization, facilitation, and presentation skills.
Having prior experience as an Agile Leader is strongly preferred for this position. Additionally, having a diverse skill set in areas such as Test Automation, Test Strategy, and Technical Analysis is a plus. This role will be aligned with the RST BSA and will specifically support a Team that focuses on Core Business Support and Strategic Projects for our business. If you possess the required skills and have a proven track record in these areas, and are interested in joining a great team, please reach out to us!
Create and nurture a culture in which experimentation and learning are embraced.
Collaborate at all levels in the organization to find common values to create a greater goal for the company and the teams.
Effectively leading agile practices in a hybrid/virtual environment.
Leadership – a strong organizational leader who is comfortable leading in a matrixed environment.
Influencing Skills – a proven ability as an effective and compelling communicator in both meeting/virtual room and large audience settings. Take complex and controversial subjects, bring clarity and ultimately drive to decisions. One who operates in a highly collaborative, yet decisive and results-oriented manner.
Strategic Thinking, Creativity and Implementation – thinks strategically and creatively about business problems, breaks down problems and presents solutions while evaluating the pros and cons of each option. Identifies business opportunities by delivering thoughtful analysis with strong logical thinking. Thinks in innovative ways about problems and issues and develops/implements creative solutions to business problems.
Growth Mindset – A transformational leader with conviction, who is able to help others adopt and implement new strategies within a large, complex matrixed organization.
Compensation Grade: G5
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Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!As an Agile Lead, you will coach a robust, self-organized Agile Team(s) responsible for building software solutions with the best technology, processes, and tools. You will collaborate to deliver business outcomes, using appropriate software delivery practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean) to continuously improve software delivery efficiency, and quality. You will play a key role in guiding delivery from idea inception to implementation and participate in user communities to learn and implement optimal practices.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Influences, coaches and mentors team members on Agile practices and principles.
Removes impediments to the team’s progress; escalate obstacles requiring outside resolution. Identifies risks and issues that might have an impact on delivery and provides thought leadership, facilitation, and communication on a mitigation strategy.
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Collaborates at the highest level to prioritize work to maximize value towards business outcomes.
Collaborates with the Agile Team(s) to provide guidance in the areas of analysis, design, development, testing, automation, and deployment while ensuring the usage of the best capability practices.
Guides and enables DevOps, DataOps, AI/MLOps through the adoption and refinement of Agile practices on our most complex and strategic efforts.
Monitors and reports on team progress and performance through enterprise and industry metrics while maintaining data quality supporting metric accuracy.
Collaborates with senior leadership on demand and financials. Actively participates in variable staffing functions for the line.
Facilitates team cadences on business critical, complex efforts (e.g., retrospective, daily standups, and show-and-tell meetings) to encourage collaboration, communication, and feedback within the team; promote a learning culture and challenge the team to be innovative.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Technology Manager/Director.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is preferred. Agile certification (Certified ScrumMaster – CSM, SAFe ScrumMaster Certification - SSM, Professional ScrumMaster Certification - PSM) and proven experience across multiple teams is a plus.
Experience: Typically, Six years of experience in Agile including three years as an Agile Leader or similar role. Strong technical expertise in one or more Agile practices and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Plus, a technical background in Software Engineering. Three or more years working with ALM tools and Microsoft Office Suite.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members and peers. Ability to manage multiple teams and lead cross team initiatives. Strong candidates will put the team first, have excellent communication skills, robust problem-solving ability, conflict resolution skills and be active in the industry. Insurance and/or financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Hybrid to normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.