AVP Mgr-Software Engineering

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Role/Responsibility:

• Work with individuals across levels to develop an agile mindset, and facilitate the adoption of Agile methodologies across the organization

• Guide, coach, and motivate junior delivery leads and keep the team abreast of traditional and new agile practices

• Serve as Agile Delivery Leader and lead the scrum teams to successfully deliver technology initiatives within proposed timelines and with quality

• Interact with senior leaders and stakeholders to manage expectations and report regular progress

• Identify knowledge gaps, lead the team trainings, and manage cross-team handovers to ensure seamless delivery and ongoing maintenance

• Manage squad/enterprise level risks, timely reporting to relevant stakeholders, work with leadership and teams to produce mitigation plans, and execute effectively.

• Collaborate with Product Analyst, Product Owner, and Product Manager to define, design and deliver product roadmap

• Collaborate with Product, Tecjhnology and Quality Assurance leads to manage changing priorities and ensure effective cross-project communication and coordination

• Collaborate with solution integrators and external consultants on technology projects, review and manage project artifacts, help facilitate communication across internal and external stakeholders

• Partner with the Data Management and Analytics Teams to ensure technology solutions adhere to data quality requirements

• Actively participate in the process improvement initiatives to deliver business value

• Work in a diverse, global onshore/offshore technology delivery framework and collaborate with teams based out of multi-locations to execute at rapid pace

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization.

• Facilitate program level events and processes, including the facilitation of the Program Increment (PI) planning process

Qualification:

Minimum education and work experience required for this position include:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other related streams

• 10+ years of total experience working in any capacity in a technology organization with minimum 5+ years serving as an Agile leader (Scrum Master or Agile coach).

• Proven experience in leading Agile transformations and well versed with various Agile ceremonies

• Strong knowledge of Agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, including but not limited to Scrum and Kanban

• Expert knowledge of modern technology framework, strong technical acumen to understand end-to-end system interactions

• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities with tight deadlines.

• Excellent documentation and presentation skills, ability to author quality artefacts and present finished work to various stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across multiple disciplines

• Experience in identifying and triaging risks and escalating through proper channels

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with executives, peers, and other functional groups across the company

• Experience with requirement management and collaborations tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, MIRO, Visio, Lucid, etc.

• Good to have - Certifications such as PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, SAFe, CSP, PSPO, or similar certification

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.

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