About This Role

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description

The Lead Agilist focuses on Product Teams within a Value Stream, developing maturity of agile practice and behaviors, and promotes effective Product Family collaboration across Product Teams. This role is part of the leadership team within a Value Stream and will be at the forefront of driving the culture shift and shaping how we work, learn, and innovate. This role helps shape our product development practices, build strong communities and a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Be the champion of a Lean and Agile mindset; teach, coach and mentor others in agile practices

• Identify innovative solutions to challenges, drawing patterns from established agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, Scrum@Scale, Nexus and SAFe), and interfacing with non-agile elements

• Optimize the flow of work across multiple agile teams to reduce toil, leading to delivery of measurable product value with early and continuous product increments

• Motivate and enable others to take accountability to streamline product delivery processes and for them to efficiently manage large and complex products

• Lead the charge to build community, foster inter-team collaboration and the culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement; driving improvements through to fruition with insight gained through the intelligent use of data and metrics

• Developing and sustaining truly high-performance teams by enabling others to streamline processes and effectively manage large and complex products

• Helping Product Owners find effective Backlog Management techniques

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field

• In lieu of a degree, 4+ years of experience using various frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and XP, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe), Scrum@Scale, Nexus, LeSS

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• Strong Agile mindset

• Agile practice related Certifications a plus (CSM, CSP-SM, SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, etc.)

• Skilled at working within a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Demonstrated ability to coach, lead, and train others

• Strong change management skills to foster buy in of new ideas

• Excellent communication (oral and written), organizational, and interpersonal skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Proactive listening skills and ability to express empathy

• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization

• Experience working for a large, highly sophisticated organization

• Demonstration of flexibility and adaptability to pivot based on organizational priorities

• Willingness to challenge disempowering behaviors and the status quo

• Embracement of an experimental attitude and readiness to take risks

• Strong background with Jira

• Have experience going through an Agile transformation

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.