Consultant, Agile Leader
Columbus, OH, USA
USD 118k-178k / year
Job Summary
Nationwide Technology is seeking a Consultant, Agile Leader to support the Pillars of Annuity line within the Annuity Modernization Program. This role will lead Agile delivery across a large, complex environment with strong business and technology partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Agile delivery practices within the Pillars of Annuity line
Coach team on Agile principles, Scrum standard work, product centricity, and continuous improvement
Drive cross-team planning, dependency management, and Scrum of Scrums coordination
Remove blockers, surface risks early, and escalate issues when needed
Partner with product, engineering, architecture, and delivery leaders to align priorities, sequencing, and capacity
Ensure work is visible, accurate, and maintained in Jira and supporting tools
Use delivery insights and team observations to improve predictability, flow, and value delivery
Lead teams through change and help strengthen accountability, collaboration, and ways of working
Required Skills and Experience
Experience serving as an Agile Leader, Scrum Master, or similar role in a large-scale technology delivery environment
Proven experience leading large teams in a complex program
Strong experience with Agile and Scrum standard work, team coaching, and continuous improvement
Demonstrated success in change management and leading teams through operating model shifts
Strong product-centric mindset and ability to connect delivery practices to business outcomes
Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder influence skills
Experience with Jira is required
Experience with Microsoft 365 tools is required
Experience working in large transformation or modernization programs
Preferred Skills and Experience
Experience in insurance, annuities, or financial services
Experience with Planview
Understanding of API-based integration patterns
Kafka experience or familiarity
Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, or SAFe
Work Arrangement
This role follows a hybrid work model and requires in-office presence in Columbus, Ohio every Wednesday and Thursday.
Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!As an Agile Lead, you will coach a robust, self-organized Agile Team(s) responsible for building software solutions with the best technology, processes, and tools. You will collaborate to deliver business outcomes, using appropriate software delivery practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean) to continuously improve software delivery efficiency, and quality. You will play a key role in guiding delivery from idea inception to implementation and participate in user communities to learn and implement optimal practices.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Influences, coaches and mentors team members on Agile practices and principles.
Removes impediments to the team’s progress; escalate obstacles requiring outside resolution. Identifies risks and issues that might have an impact on delivery and provides thought leadership, facilitation, and communication on a mitigation strategy.
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Collaborates at the highest level to prioritize work to maximize value towards business outcomes.
Collaborates with the Agile Team(s) to provide guidance in the areas of analysis, design, development, testing, automation, and deployment while ensuring the usage of the best capability practices.
Guides and enables DevOps, DataOps, AI/MLOps through the adoption and refinement of Agile practices on our most complex and strategic efforts.
Monitors and reports on team progress and performance through enterprise and industry metrics while maintaining data quality supporting metric accuracy.
Collaborates with senior leadership on demand and financials. Actively participates in variable staffing functions for the line.
Facilitates team cadences on business critical, complex efforts (e.g., retrospective, daily standups, and show-and-tell meetings) to encourage collaboration, communication, and feedback within the team; promote a learning culture and challenge the team to be innovative.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Technology Manager/Director.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is preferred. Agile certification (Certified ScrumMaster – CSM, SAFe ScrumMaster Certification - SSM, Professional ScrumMaster Certification - PSM) and proven experience across multiple teams is a plus.
Experience: Typically, Six years of experience in Agile including three years as an Agile Leader or similar role. Strong technical expertise in one or more Agile practices and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Plus, a technical background in Software Engineering. Three or more years working with ALM tools and Microsoft Office Suite.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members and peers. Ability to manage multiple teams and lead cross team initiatives. Strong candidates will put the team first, have excellent communication skills, robust problem-solving ability, conflict resolution skills and be active in the industry. Insurance and/or financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Hybrid to normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:
We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.
Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.The national salary range for Consultant, Agile Leader : $118,000.00-$222,000.00The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Agile Leader : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00