
Agile Specialist - Allergan Aesthetics
Required skills
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Agile methodologies
- Agile environment
- continuous planning
- engineering team schedules
- resource planning
Nice to have
- Agile ceremonies
- daily stand-ups
- sprint planning
- backlog maintenance
- backlog refinement
- sprint reviews
Role summary
AbbVie's Allergan Aesthetics is seeking an Agile Specialist to report to the Senior Manager, Agile Practices. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to solve technical problems, leading continuous planning, maintaining schedules, tracking project milestones, and removing obstacles. The specialist will coordinate communication, manage product backlogs with Engineering, Product, and PMO, and ensure engineers have necessary requirements. They will act as a liaison between development teams and external stakeholders, facilitate Agile ceremonies, promote best practices, and manage JIRA. The role requires a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of Agile experience with Scrum or Kanban, proficiency in JIRA/Confluence, and strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
As the Agile Specialist, you will report to the Senior Manager, Agile Practices as well ascontinuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve the most important
technical problems.
You Will:
• Lead and refine continuous planning, ensuring ongoing planning for and visibility to arolling quarter + plan for the team/s you support.• Maintain engineering team schedules, ensuring proper resource planning and translation
of estimates to key milestone dates.
• Track project milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and timelines to ensure projectsand programs stay on track and meet delivery timelines.• Remove obstacles that may hinder the team's progress.• Coordinate communication between different teams, departments, and stakeholders.• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and PMO to manage and prioritize the productbacklog.• Ensure engineers have necessary product requirements and UX designs to stay on trackand meet deadlines.• Serve as the key liaison between software development teams and externalstakeholders building advocacy and credibility.• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlogmaintenance and refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.• Promote Agile best practices and educate team members to enhance team performanceand productivity.• Support the JIRA management for teams they support and other tools as appropriate.• Provide burndown charts, velocity tracking, and other agile performance metrics toinform and resolve issues with the team and manager(s).
Required Experience & Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field.• 5+ years’ experience in an Agile environment with experience using Agile methodologies
such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.• Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability.• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and related tooling.
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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About AbbVie
At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit . Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.
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