Job Summary:
The IT Systems Engineer Senior serves as a servant leader and Agile coach, enabling cross-functional teams to deliver business value through modern delivery practices and a product-centric operating model. This role partners closely with Product Managers, Engineering teams, and stakeholders to foster collaboration, drive continuous improvement, remove impediments, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality solutions.
The position plays a critical role in orchestrating delivery across multiple teams, managing dependencies, improving delivery predictability, and supporting the adoption of Agile-at-scale practices. The successful candidate will help teams embrace agility, promote transparency, and align execution with business objectives while driving measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Leadership & Team Enablement
- Serve as a servant leader and coach to Agile teams, promoting Lean and Agile principles, practices, and continuous improvement.
- Coach team members, Product Managers, and stakeholders on modern delivery practices and product-centric operating models.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning activities.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Product Delivery & Execution
- Support Product Managers and teams in backlog refinement, prioritization, release planning, and defining measurable business outcomes.
- Establish and maintain team norms, working agreements, and definitions of done to ensure compliance with organizational standards, governance requirements, and quality expectations.
- Monitor delivery metrics and team performance indicators to identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Communicate team progress, achievements, and challenges to stakeholders and leadership.
Cross-Team Coordination & Dependency Management
- Orchestrate delivery across multiple product and engineering teams, ensuring alignment of priorities, schedules, and dependencies.
- Identify, track, and manage cross-functional and cross-team dependencies.
- Facilitate coordination across Product Managers, Engineering teams, and shared service functions to ensure successful delivery of interdependent initiatives.
- Drive release alignment and execution planning across multiple delivery streams.
Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
- Proactively identify risks and issues that may impact delivery and facilitate mitigation planning.
- Remove impediments or engage appropriate stakeholders to resolve blockers.
- Drive adoption of Agile-at-scale practices and execution governance.
- Establish delivery metrics and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility into progress, value realization, and delivery predictability.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 7–10 years of overall professional experience.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments with multiple cross-functional teams.
- Experience coordinating delivery across product, engineering, platform, or shared services teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Lean principles, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience managing dependencies, release planning, and execution across multiple teams.
- Ability to work effectively within global delivery models and distributed teams.
Preferred Certifications
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or other Agile-at-scale certifications
Agile & Delivery Leadership
- Agile Coaching and Mentoring
- Scrum and Agile Framework Facilitation
- Lean Methodologies and Continuous Improvement
- Product-Centric Operating Models
- Agile-at-Scale Frameworks (SAFe, Scrum@Scale, etc.)
Collaboration & Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Influencing and Driving Alignment
- Effective Facilitation and Communication
Execution & Problem Solving
- Risk and Dependency Management
- Release Planning and Coordination
- Delivery Predictability and Performance Measurement
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Decision Making in Ambiguous Environments
Customer & Business Focus
- Customer-Centric Mindset
- Value Delivery and Outcome Orientation
- Business Alignment and Value Realization
- Building Trusted Partnerships
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting Data Product or Data Platform organizations.
- Understanding of data engineering concepts, data pipelines, APIs, data quality frameworks, analytics platforms, and AI/ML use cases.
- Experience managing upstream and downstream data dependencies impacting product delivery.
- Exposure to portfolio-level planning, release train coordination, and enterprise-scale Agile governance.
- Experience working with global teams across onshore and offshore delivery models
Job Systems/Information Technology
Organization Cummins Inc.
Role Category On-site with Flexibility
Job Type Exempt - Experienced
ReqID 2431582
Relocation Package Yes
100% On-Site No