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American Express
Agile Champion (Amex ID: 24014167)
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Description
ID: 24014167
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
This role will be a part of the Global Accounts Receivable team . An Agile Champion is a facilitator for Engineering teams, advocating, and executing Agile practices to support incremental delivery of prioritized work and value to end users. An Agile Champion works with the Product Owner and Engineering in adopting Agile principles and values, removing impediments, and supporting an environment of continuous improvement.
Facilitates Agile events that help the Engineering team deliver value incrementally and iteratively
Supports the Program Increment (PI) execution through facilitating team level events and partners with the RTE.
Supports the team in achieving the PI objectives
Supports Product Owners through backlog refinement, backlog readiness, definition of ready/done and support writing user stories.
Supports coordination across Team of Teams (Agile Release Train (ART)/Release Train Engineer (RTE)).
Supports, monitors, and provides visibility around gaps, impediments, risks, and dependencies.
Fosters practices for identifying, tracking, discussing and resolving cross-team dependencies within the team, taking ownership of a dependency in some circumstances.
Manages and organizes delivery
Works in partnership with Product Owners and the core and extended team to manage and prioritize the product backlog.
Supporting processes to track iteration progress, issue resolution, and removing obstacles to ensure sprint/iteration commitments are met, escalate to leadership as necessary
Ensures adherence to the Technology SDLC process, Agile values, principles, and practices, and actively encourages teams to reflect and improve.
Good understanding of technology solutions
Strong technical acumen
Leadership & Coaching
Understand and demonstrate the Agile at Scale Values and Principles.
Encourage diversity of thought and demonstrate an open mindset.
Foster a culture of trust and leadership in others.
Supports a learning culture to drive continuous improvements and standardization.
Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo.
Supports collaboration and quality practices between Agile and product teams.
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in technology related discipline or equivalent experience essential
Up to 4 years of relevant experience with a demonstrated record of accomplishment of growing responsibility.
Experience participating in Agile, Scrum, SAFE or other rapid application development teams is essential.
Experience with Agile Management tools like JIRA / Rally
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American Express
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Culture overview
Our culture is built on a 175-year history of
courageous leadership, innovation, and an
unwavering commitment to back our customers,
communities, and each other. With shared values
and leadership behaviors, we’ve continued to set
the standard for what it means to provide the best
experience every day with premium products and
services that help our customers achieve their
aspirations. As part of Team Amex, you’ll build
strong relationships and collaborate
with colleagues around the world in an
environment where everyone is respected and
valued, and where you can reach your potential.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work
makes an impact, and together, you will help us
define the future of American Express.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Laptop
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Season Ticket Loan
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
City Centre
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
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Leadership
Ravi Radhakrishnan
Chief Information Officer
Tech overview
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.
Make an Impact
Our tech teams power large scale platforms and products, enabling over 100 million global consumers and businesses.
Grow Your Career
Progress as either a people leader or technical expert, while increasing your domain expertise within a high-performing team.
Expand Your Skills
Use the latest languages, technologies, and delivery practices, and demonstrate your skills at internal hackathons, open-source days, and developer events.
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Engineering principles
Agile Process
Change Management
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Monitoring and logging
Open source contributor
Pair programming
Scrum
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