About the OpportunityJob Type: Permanent
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
Job Description
Title GPS Agile Lead
Department GPS CAO
Location Gurgaon
Reports To GPS Operating Model Lead
Level 7
With a global presence across more than 25 locations around the world, Fidelity International (FIL) provides investment services and retirement expertise to everyone from central banks and financial institutions to wealth managers
and private individuals. We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years.
Within FIL’s Global Platform Solutions (GPS) business we have a clear vision: Everyone wants to feel financially secure. Our unique combination of solutions and services help make that a reality, empowering people to invest with confidence and achieve their financial goals. So, join our team and be part of delivering our exciting vision.
About your team
The GPS CAO team helps set, deliver and measure the GPS strategy and roadmap. We provide the key capabilities of Strategy, Governance, Business Intelligence and Change Delivery across GPS. As part of this accountability, we need to define and optimise how GPS operates, ensuring we can meet customer needs, deliver our strategy, and achieve sustainable profitability, through empowered, high performing teams. As part of this, we are seeking to grow our Agile Coaching capability to enhance the support to our Teams, Stakeholders and the Enterprise, and continue our journey towards agility.
About your role
We are seeking an experienced leader to drive our GPS Agile transformation. This includes
Leading the GPS agile coaching capability, with coaches embedded in our delivery teams Informing our GPS operating model design and delivery approach Championing agility across GPS and FIL
Key Responsibilities
Lead the GPS Agile Coaching capability
- Build and lead the GPS Agile coaching capability, ensuring consistency in approach
- Partner with delivery teams to analyse current ways of working and design a strategy for the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices
- Enable Agile Teams to succeed with a focus on growing capabilities in the teams
- Oversee and guide agile teams in implementing and practicing agile methodologies
Inform GPS Operating Model Design
- Inform design and delivery approach for the GPS operating model, in particular agile delivery and portfolio management frameworks, practices and routines
- Provide guidance on agile best practices
- Provide guidance to ensure successful execution of agile initiatives within the organization.
Champion GPS Agility
- Effectively communicate agile principles, practices and overall ways of working across the organization
- Collaborate with GPS teams to drive the adoption of agile practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset
- Act as a change agent, driving awareness and understanding of agile principles and practices across the organization.
About you
- Previous experience in:
- building and leading agile teams
- driving Agile Adoption in a large organisation is a plus
- successfully coaching Teams through the adoption of Agile Frameworks as an Agile Coach in a globally distributed environment
- In-depth knowledge of Agile Frameworks
- Practical experience with one or more Scaled Agile Approaches (Scrum of Scrums, Spotify model, LeSS, Nexus, SAFe, Scrum@Scale, etc.)
- Extended track record of delivering training in a manner that ensures knowledge transfer
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- Strong influencing skills to achieve alignment up, down and across the organization
- Innovative and creative thinking in order to solve problems and get things done
Feel rewarded
For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.
For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.
Top Skills
What We Do
Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.5 million customers globally. As a privately held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 countries and with $739.9 billion* in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.
Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $567 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures.
*Data as of 31 March 2021
