Manager, Application Development at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in San Francisco, California

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:

• Manage a team of Data and Analytics engineers on an agile scrum team (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 best practices.




• 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+ 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 with the ability to influence translating those processes into actions on an Agile Team.




• Ability to implement agile metrics and use those metrics to help the team(s) identify opportunities for improvement during the 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, whose focus is removing impediments and building up the capabilities of an Agile Team.




• 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.

Desired Qualification

• SAFe Certification.




• PMP agile Certification.




• Proven experience managing large, complex Data Warehouse/ETL applications is preferred.

Base Salary Range for Assistant Manager, App Dev​ 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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