Job Title:
Senior IT Project Manager - Agile Coach
Location:
Block 23
What you'll do:
The Agile Coach is a cornerstone role in building and shaping a new Agile Center of Excellence from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to help define how Agile comes to life across IT, working alongside teams as they take their very first steps on their Agile journey and experience the power of great execution.
Rather than operating from the sidelines, this role embeds directly with delivery teams to make Agile real. The Agile Coach brings sprint ceremonies to life, strengthens delivery discipline, and partners closely with product owners, scrum leads, engineers, and IT leaders to drive meaningful progress. Through hands on coaching, the role removes blockers, addresses Agile anti patterns, and builds strong, resilient team dynamics in real time.
This position is ideal for someone who thrives in the early stages of transformation, and is excited to influence mindsets, establish working norms, and help teams achieve their first wins while navigating early challenges. The Agile Coach will have a visible and lasting impact by setting the foundation for consistent delivery, scalable practices, and a shared understanding of what “great Agile” truly looks like, starting from day one.
- Provide hands-on Agile coaching by embedding with delivery teams and leaders to strengthen execution, reinforce effective Agile practices, and improve delivery outcomes.
- Coach teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Leads to improve flow, clarify roles, maintain healthy backlogs, and consistently deliver usable working outcomes.
- Identify and address delivery blockers, Agile anti-patterns, and team or leadership behaviors that negatively impact predictability and throughput.
- Support Agile adoption efforts by coaching teams and leaders through onboarding, launch, and stabilization phases, and helping the organization transition to Agile ways of working.
- Reinforce consistent use of Agile tools and practices to ensure work remains visible, current, and aligned to agreed execution standards, enabling reliable insights and data‑driven improvement.
- Partner with the Agile Center of Excellence to share lessons learned, support lightweight standards and training, and continuously improve Agile enablement approaches across IT.
What you'll need:
- 8+ years of related experience in Project Management working in an Agile environment.
- Bachelor's degree in related field required.
- Previous leadership experience preferred.
- Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
- Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
- Intermediate to advanced experience in IT project management managing large, complex projects with a proven track record of delivering projects on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Advanced experience working with project management tools (e.g., Workfront, MS Project, or similar).
- Strong understanding of IT systems, software development life cycles (SDLC), and cloud technologies while also demonstrating strong organizational and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with team members, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
- Project Management Professional Certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent certification
- May require up to 25% travel.
Benefits you’ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!
About the company:
Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
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