Senior Agilist

At U.S. Bancorp India, we’re on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Model and champion Agile values, principles, and digital delivery practices.
• Enable outcome-based strategy evolution through experimentation, feedback loops, and continuous learning.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, Business, and shared services (Risk, Release Management, Customer Experience, Accessibility, Analytics, Marketing, etc.) to drive a customer-centric delivery approach.
• Collaborate with Product Management to develop and maintain a multi-year rolling roadmap aligned to defined OKRs and strategic initiatives.
• Promote Agile practices across roadmap planning, prioritization, quarterly planning, and sprint execution.
• Manage cross-portfolio dependencies, risks, and impacts to ensure timely and predictable feature delivery.
• Facilitate alignment across teams and leaders to proactively remove impediments and resolve conflicts.
• Communicate outcomes, risks, and progress to stakeholders using agile and delivery metrics.
• Coach and influence teams, leaders, and partners to adopt Agile ways of working and mindset.
• Drive data discipline and adoption of collaboration and planning tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Mural, etc.).
• Lead retrospectives and leverage delivery metrics to drive continuous improvement across teams.
• Ensure adherence to risk and release readiness standards, as well as audit compliance.
• Build team capability and maturity through coaching, onboarding, and structured training.
• Facilitate annual capex planning, track resource allocation, and help resolve skillset gaps as needed.
• Foster a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, transparency, psychological safety, and engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of experience as an Agile Coach, Portfolio/Program Manager, Business Analyst or other similar role

• Strong understanding of Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and Product Delivery Lifecycle (PDLC)
• 8+ years of experience coaching and enabling multiple teams to achieve high performance and delivery outcomes
• Advanced knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, and other Lean-Agile methodologies)
• 8+ years of experience driving Agile adoption and leading program-level retrospectives to improve end-to-end delivery
• 8+ years of experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (e.g., Atlassian suite, Planview, Rally, VersionOne, etc.)
• Proven ability to define, measure, and report on delivery metrics and team performance
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple, geographically distributed portfolios
• Experience working with vendor partners in onshore/offshore delivery models
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to influence and engage senior leaders through clear, compelling presentations
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving capabilities in complex environments
• Ability to coach, motivate, and inspire teams in a fast-paced, high-energy setting
• Continuous learner with a growth mindset and ability to drive innovation
• Financial Services industry experience preferred
• Experience managing and developing Agile practitioners (e.g., Agilists) within a matrixed organization

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.