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Federal Reserve Bank • San Francisco, CA 94103 • Posted 2 days ago

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Hybrid • Full-time • $117,800-$183,200/yr • Junior Manager

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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking an Assistant Manager for its Information Technology department, specifically within the CASH Application Delivery organization. The role involves leading and managing an agile scrum team in the software application development for the CASH business line. Responsibilities include managing a team of Data and Analytics engineers, coordinating development dependencies, working with project stakeholders, and facilitating agile processes such as sprint planning and retrospectives.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of Data and Analytics engineers on an agile scrum team (SAFe).
  • Coordinate development dependencies that span multiple development teams.
  • Work with project stakeholders to define project vision, scope, and deliverables in support of business goals.
  • Coordinate and oversee performance of project resources and set expectations accordingly.
  • Escalate issues to project stakeholders in a timely fashion.
  • Facilitate Sprint Planning/Pre-Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, and Product Demos.
  • Assist Product Owners with backlog creation and grooming of stories.
  • Coach and mentor the agile/scrum team on best practices.
  • Report status of teams to executive audience.
  • Maintain the scrum team dashboards.
  • Staff motivation, career development, assessing training needs, building and maintaining trust and respect, setting expectations, providing continuous feedback on performance, coaching, professional development, mentoring and succession planning.
  • Identify roles and associated skills needed to optimize and build agile scrum teams.
  • Align current and future release train deliverables to ensure appropriate staffing needs are communicated to management.
  • Ensure effective utilization of resources, timesheet approval and budget management.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's degree with concentration in Computer science, management information systems or comparable technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in software development projects and supporting critical business applications with 3+ years of experience in running projects/leading teams with moderate to high risk and complexity.
  • Proven understanding of SAFe and agile development processes.
  • Ability to implement agile metrics and use those metrics to help the team identify opportunities for improvement during retrospective meetings.
  • Ability to empower a self-organized team to work together on product delivery.
  • Familiar with Automated Testing and the ability to shape Sprint planning around this model.
  • Displays the capability of a Servant Leader.
  • Proven ability to teach, mentor, facilitate and coach teams to continuously improve while using the Scrum framework.
  • Help facilitate/participate in the daily Scrum stand-ups.
  • Coordinate work across multiple Scrum Teams where dependencies exist.
  • Ability to manage the agile software development lifecycle from project initiation to releasing to production.
  • Ability to influence change across the organization in adopting Scrum/Agile principles.
  • Ability to challenge teams to break down stories into reasonable sizes so that work can be delivered in every Sprint.
  • Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.
  • Experience with Agile team development processes and practices
  • Certified SCRUM Master
  • Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder with intent to become a U.S. Citizen.

Preferred

  • SAFe Certification.
  • PMP agile Certification.
  • Proven experience managing large, complex Data Warehouse/ETL applications.

Full Job Description

**Company**

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco-public servants with a mission to advance the nation's monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. We are a community-engaged bank, and are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, expansive communities of the Twelfth District. We respect people for what they do and for who they are. We build opportunities to learn and grow. We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That's why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Information Technology department has an immediate opening for an Assistant IT Manager within the CASH Application Delivery organization. The main responsibility of the Assistant Manager is to lead and run the agile scrum team engaged in the software application development for the CASH business line.

**Essential** **Responsibilities:**

+ Manageateam of Data and Analytics engineers onanagilescrumteam (SAFe).

+ Coordinate development dependencies that span multiple development team.

+ Works with project stakeholders to define project vision, scope and deliverables in support of business goals.

+ Coordinates and oversees performance of project resources and sets expectations accordingly.

+ Escalate issues to project stakeholders in a timely fashion.

+ Facilitate Sprint Planning/Pre-Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, and Product Demos.

+ Assist Product Owners with backlog creation and grooming of stories.

+ Coach and mentor the agile/scrum on bestpractices.

+ Report status of teams to executive audience.

+ Maintains the scrum team dashboards.

**Additional Responsibilities**

**People Management** - Responsibilities include staff motivation, career development, assessing training needs, building and maintaining trust and respect, setting expectations, providing continuous feedback on performance, coaching, professional development, mentoring and succession planning.

**Resource Planning and Management** - Identify roles and associated skills needed to optimize and build agile scrum teams. Request appropriate staff be available; assess current resource allocation and recommend any changes to management. Align current and future release train deliverables to ensure appropriate staffing needs are communicated to management. Ensure effective utilization of resources, timesheet approval and budget management.

**Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's degree with concentration in Computer science, management information systems or comparable technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

+ 5+yearsofexperiencein software development projects and supporting critical business applications with 3+yearsofexperiencein running projects/leading teams with moderate to high risk and complexity.

+ Proven understanding of SAFe and agile development processes with theabilityto influence translating those processes into actions onanAgileTeam.

+ Ability to implement agile metrics and use those metrics to help the team(s) identifyopportunities for improvement during the retrospective meetings.

+ Ability to empower a self-organized team to work together on product delivery.

+ Familiar with Automated Testing and theabilityto shape Sprint planning around this model.

+ Displays the capability of a Servant Leader, whose focus is removing impediments and building up the capabilities of anAgileTeam.

+ Provenability to teach,mentor, facilitate and coach teams to continuously improve while using the Scrum framework.

+ Help facilitate/participateinthe daily Scrum stand-ups.

+ Coordinate work across multiple Scrum Teams where dependencies exist.

+ Ability to manage the agile software development lifecycle from project initiation to releasing to production.

+ Ability to influence change across the organization in adopting Scrum/Agile principles.

+ Ability to challenge teams to break down stories into reasonable sizes so that work can be delivered in every Sprint.

+ Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.

+ Experience with Agile team development processes and practices

+ Certified SCRUM Master

+ Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder with intent to become a U.S. Citizen.

**Desired Qualification**

+ SAFe Certification.

+ PMP agile Certification.

+ Provenexperiencemanaging large, complex Data Warehouse/ETL applications is preferred.

_Base Salary Range for Associate Integration Engineer: Min:_ _$117,800_ _- Mid:_ _$153,000_ _- Max:_ _$183,200(Location_ _: San Francisco)_

_Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, skills,_ _internal_ _equity,_ _and alignment with market data._

_We_ _offer_ _a_ _wonderful benefits package including: Medical,_ _Dental,_ _Vision,_ _Pre-tax_ _Flexible_ _Spending_ _Account,_ _Backup_ _Child_ _Care_ _Program,_ _Pre-Tax Day Care_ _Flexible_ _Spending_ _Account,_ _Paid_ _Family_ _Care Leave,_ _Vacation_ _Days,_ _Sick_ _Days,_ _Paid_ _Holidays,_ _Pet_ _Insurance,_ _Matching_ _401(k),_ _and_ _Retirement_ _/Pension._

_We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided_ _reasonable_ _accommodation_ _to_ _participate_ _in_ _the_ _job application or interview process, perform_ _essential_ _job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. The SF Fed is an_ _Equal_ _Opportunity_ _Employer._

_\#LI-Hybrid_

**Full Time / Part Time**

Full time

**Regular / Temporary**

Regular

**Job Exempt (Yes / No)**

Yes

**Job Category**

Information Technology

**Work Shift**

First (United States of America)

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OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States-one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.

OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.

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We hope that you will be our future colleague.

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