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**Ref #** 20290

**Remote?** No

Ally and Your Career

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Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

Responsible for effective collaboration, facilitation, and leadership across multi agile teams along with assisting teams to meet IT strategic goals across Cybersecurity product lines. Understands agile and project management methodology and supports continuous improvement. This role involves working closely with project teams, stakeholders, and external partners to ensure successful project delivery within scope, time, and budget constraints.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The Work Itself

* Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.

* Establishing team level cadence and driving team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc.)

* Work with the teams to drive the definition and refinement of the program to meet PMO requirements.

* Heavy understanding of PowerBI and Jira.

* Ability to escalate to leadership where needed and where possible remove impediments for the team(s).

* Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

* Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers. Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other scrum teams.

* Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams.

* Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.

* Use historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments

* Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.

* Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.

* Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.

* Identify and remove technical and/or organizational challenges standing in the way of allowing your team to reach its full potential.

The Skills You Bring

* Minimum of 3 years of Project Management and 3 years of Scrum Master experience.

* Certified Scrum Master (CSM or related certification mandatory) PMP certification is a bonus.

* 3+ years of information technology experience highly preferred.

* Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience.

* Ability to create using of PowerBI and Jira tools.

* Experience with cyber security technology.

* Thorough understanding and experience working with both agile methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects.

* Ability to deal with multiple projects.

* Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.

* Data driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery.

* Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.

* Ability to understand and communicate technical issues.

* Highly adaptable to changing environment.

* Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.

* Ability to keep team engaged and on task.

\#LI-Hybrid

How We'll Have Your Back

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Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally’s total compensation - or total rewards - extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.

* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.

* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.

* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts.

* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

_Base Pay Range:_

An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.

**Emerging:** 85000

**Experienced:** 117500

**Expert:** 150000

Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan