Job Summary

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

Our Technology Governance & Delivery Enablement team at S&P; Dow Jones Indices drives operational excellence through Lean Portfolio Management and Agile ways of working across complex product portfolios, value streams and Agile Release Trains. We foster a collaborative culture focused on accelerating technology delivery while embedding innovative AI-enabled practices and Responsible AI governance. As a globally minded team, we value continuous learning, transparency, accountability, and high-performing cross-functional partnerships that deliver measurable business outcomes at scale.

Responsibilities

- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Lead the planning and execution of Program Increments (PI) to deliver against prioritized business outcomes
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Facilitating program increment planning readiness by fostering Continuous Exploration process which drives the combination of Vision, Roadmap, and backlog and through Pre and Post Pl planning Meetings
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Coordinate with the Product Management and Tech Team to define the release on-demand plan as per prioritized epics/features for a program increment
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Enhance planning efficiency by leveraging AI-generated summaries and action recommendations.
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Facilitate core ART events, including PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt sessions, etc.
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Ensure alignment between business strategy, portfolio priorities, and execution across value streams
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Proactively manages risks, dependencies, and impediments impacting delivery across teams, including escalation as needed
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Ensure effective prioritization aligned to business value and organizational goals
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Drive predictability, quality, and efficiency in delivery across the ART(s)
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Lead Scrum of Scrums/ART syncs and coordinates with scrum masters and other relevant members of an ART to effectively manage dependencies and risks
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Use AI powered tools and predictive analytics to forecast feature completion timelines and capacity constraints.
- ART Leadership & Delivery Management: Enable data-driven decision-making by integrating AI insights into Program Increment (PI) planning and execution.

Voice of Change & Team Enablement

- Voice of Change & Team Enablement: Lead, coach, and develop Scrum Masters and/or Flow Masters to drive to build high-performing, self-organizing teams
- Voice of Change & Team Enablement: Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams
- Voice of Change & Team Enablement: Enable teams to deliver efficiently by removing impediments and improving flow
- Voice of Change & Team Enablement: Support Product Management in leveraging AI to identify gaps, redundancies,



or hidden dependencies in epics and features.

Agile Transformation & Coaching

- Agile Transformation & Coaching: Champion adoption and scaling of Lean-Agile and SAFe practices across the ART and broader organization
- Agile Transformation & Coaching: Coach leaders, teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles, practices, and mindset shifts
- Agile Transformation & Coaching: Support enterprise-wide transformation by mentoring across functions and value streams

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

- Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Partner closely with Product Management, Business Owners, and Technology leadership to drive alignment and decision-making
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Communicate effectively across stakeholders to ensure transparency of progress, risks, and outcomes
- Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Build strong cross-functional partnerships across teams and functions to enable seamless execution

Continuous Improvement & Metrics

- Continuous Improvement & Metrics: Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops and implement improvement actions across teams and ARTs
- Continuous Improvement & Metrics: Track and produce key program-level metrics reports (e.g. cumulative flow diagram, Pl burn-up, and burn-down charts, etc.)
- Continuous Improvement & Metrics: Leverage metrics (flow, predictability, quality, outcomes) and insights to identify improvement opportunities
- Continuous Improvement & Metrics: Leverage AI-powered tools to analyze sprint velocity, predict delivery risks, and identify bottlenecks across the Agile Release Train (ART).
- Continuous Improvement & Metrics: Drive systemic improvements across ART and value stream operations

Cross-ART & Portfolio Alignment

- Cross-ART & Portfolio Alignment: Collaborate across multiple ARTs and valuestreams to manage dependencies and optimize integrated value delivery
- Cross-ART & Portfolio Alignment: Align execution with portfolio governance, enterprise priorities, and strategic themes

Responsible AI & Governance

- Responsible AI & Governance: Accountable for embedding Responsible AI practices across value streams
- Responsible AI & Governance: Promote adherence to standards for human oversight, data privacy, ethical use, and technical safeguards in delivery

Organizational Agility & Culture

- Organizational Agility & Culture: Act as a change agent to advance Lean-Agile maturity across the valuestreams and divisions
- Organizational Agility & Culture: Enable collaborative partnerships that support training, coaching,



and adoption of Agile principles and scaled agile ways of working.
- Organizational Agility & Culture: Influence cultural change toward a more adaptive, resilient, and learning organization
- Organizational Agility & Culture: Must be able to be a voice of reason and authority and build consensus
- Organizational Agility & Culture: Facilitate a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope

Knowledge Management & Collaboration

- Knowledge Management & Collaboration: Utilize AI tools to capture, summarize, and surface key decisions, action items, and program knowledge across the ART.
- Knowledge Management & Collaboration: Enable faster onboarding and alignment via AI-curated documentation and knowledge repositories.

What we are looking for

- Minimum 7+ yrs of RTE experience across product teams
- 3+ years of experience being a team level coach and/or program level coach
- 5+ years of people management experience
- Significant experience leading Agile business value delivery in complex, matrixed organizations
- Proven experience operating at Program and/or Portfolio levels
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Protected framework and ART execution
- Experience coaching teams, Scrum Masters, and leaders to improve Agile maturity
- Strong facilitation skills in large, cross-functional environments
- Proven ability to manage risks, dependencies, and delivery across multiple teams
- Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills across business and technology
- Analytical mindset with experience leveraging metrics for decision-making
- Exposure and experience related to AI capabilities in SAFe and Scrum Practices
- Ability to understand domain specific and technical discussions so that he/she can facilitate the agile events and discussions in a meaningful way
- Ability to partner with other Scrum Masters, different agile roles and teams to increase the effectiveness agile practices within the ART(s) and broader organization
- Effective skills and experience in facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, predictability, and increasing transparency
- Extensive experience in identifying the risks upfront and taking the accountability to get the risks resolved in a timely manner
- Proven track record of enabling the teams to deliver prioritized business value efficiently with a focus on accelerated delivery, enhanced quality and maximum ROI
- Expert in agile metrics and utilization of metrics for continuous improvement
- Experience with tools like - Azure DevOps, Confluence, power BI, MS Teams, SharePoint, JIRA. VersionOne, etc.
- Excellent organizational, statistical, analytical, problem solving, written and oral presentation skills
- Proven track record of identifying and improving Agile execution on a team
- Basic knowledge of lean portfolio management
- Familiarity with Kanban practices and metrics
- Thorough understanding of enterprise software development processes and lifecycle with familiarity of product development life cycle
- Works effectively with leaders at all levels

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