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Drives processes and execution oversight for Engineering Teams. Enables Product Engineering team productivity and agility by demonstrating Agile/Scrum concepts and principles where appropriate. Focuses on team execution.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Facilitate and Leads the Team Execution
• Drives team/release level processes demonstrating servant leadership coupled with domain knowledge and technical savvy. • Facilitates Sprint planning meetings and other Scrum ceremonies with delivery team.
• Support product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness.
• Ensures dependency alignment across teams.
• Execute the Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategy, vision and road map
• Ensure value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users.
• Works with the product owner to develop a prioritize team backlog.
• Collaborates with other Technical Project Managers (TPM) to coordinate cross-team dependencies and other teams within the organization.
• Create data-driven insights into the delivery and execution of the team using relevant team level metrics.
• Raises impediments, handles risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs.
• Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration.
• Drive Agile team objectives.
• Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities across Agile teams.
• Track and measure user story execution.
• Manages external relationships, e.g. product or vendor partners. Technical Skills
• Assist with maintaining Central applications and disaster recovery plans and resolving information security vulnerabilities.
• Understand the team’s technical platforms and applications.
• Facilitate solution technical alignment discussions. Leadership and Coaching
• Coach leaders and teams in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Live the Agile and SAFe Values and Principles.
• Encourage diversity of thought and demonstrate an open mindset.
• Foster a culture of trust and leadership in others.
• Champion a learning culture to drive continuous improvements and standardization.
• Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo.
• Inspires collaboration and quality practices between system architects, Agile teams, and product teams.
• Provides guidance to ensure the timely identification and prioritization of technical infrastructure to support implementation of priority features and enablers, e.g. Architectural Runway.
• Promotes compliance with SDLC standards across the team.
• Ensures data integrity for the team within the Agile Management tools.
Preferred Qualifications
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.