About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
12 The Team:
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 & Impact:
ART Leadership & Delivery Management
Lead the planning and execution of Program Increments (PI) to deliver against prioritized business outcomes
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
Coordinate with the Product Management and Tech Team to define the release on-demand plan as per prioritized epics/features for a program increment
Enhance planning efficiency by leveraging AI-generated summaries and action recommendations.
Facilitate core ART events, including PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt sessions, etc.
Ensure alignment between business strategy, portfolio priorities, and execution across value streams
Proactively manages risks, dependencies, and impediments impacting delivery across teams, including escalation as needed
Ensure effective prioritization aligned to business value and organizational goals
Drive predictability, quality, and efficiency in delivery across the ART(s)
Lead Scrum of Scrums/ART syncs and coordinates with scrum masters and other relevant members of an ART to effectively manage dependencies and risks
Use AI powered tools and predictive analytics to forecast feature completion timelines and capacity constraints.
Enable data-driven decision-making by integrating AI insights into Program Increment (PI) planning and execution.
Voice of Change & Team Enablement
Lead, coach, and develop Scrum Masters and/or Flow Masters to drive to build high-performing, self-organizing teams
Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams
Enable teams to deliver efficiently by removing impediments and improving flow
Support Product Management in leveraging AI to identify gaps, redundancies, or hidden dependencies in epics and features.
Agile Transformation & Coaching
Champion adoption and scaling of Lean-Agile and SAFe practices across the ART and broader organization
Coach leaders, teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles, practices, and mindset shifts
Support enterprise-wide transformation by mentoring across functions and value streams
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
Partner closely with Product Management, Business Owners, and Technology leadership to drive alignment and decision-making
Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams
Communicate effectively across stakeholders to ensure transparency of progress, risks, and outcomes
Build strong cross-functional partnerships across teams and functions to enable seamless execution
Continuous Improvement & Metrics
Lead Inspect & Adapt workshops and implement improvement actions across teams and ARTs
Track and produce key program-level metrics reports (e.g. cumulative flow diagram, Pl burn-up, and burn-down charts, etc.)
Leverage metrics (flow, predictability, quality, outcomes) and insights to identify improvement opportunities
Leverage AI-powered tools to analyze sprint velocity, predict delivery risks, and identify bottlenecks across the Agile Release Train (ART).
Drive systemic improvements across ART and value stream operations
Cross-ART & Portfolio Alignment
Collaborate across multiple ARTs and valuestreams to manage…