Senior Agilist

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential.

A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need.

From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description At U.S. Bank, we are committed to helping our customers and communities thrive. We are seeking a strategic, influential, and results-oriented Senior Agilist to drive Agile transformation, delivery excellence, and organizational effectiveness across complex business and technology initiatives within Payments. This role goes beyond traditional Scrum Master responsibilities. The Senior Agilist serves as a trusted advisor, coach, facilitator, and change leader who helps teams, leaders, and organizations accelerate value delivery while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, customer focus, and measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience leading Agile transformations, coaching leaders and teams, navigating complex organizational dynamics, improving cross-functional collaboration, and enabling strategic execution at scale.

• Lead Agile transformation initiatives that improve organizational agility, delivery predictability, and business outcomes.
• Coach leaders, Product Managers, and delivery teams on Agile principles, Lean thinking, product-centric operating models, and continuous improvement.
• Drive adoption and maturity of Agile practices across multiple teams, products, and organizational boundaries.
• Foster an environment of accountability, transparency, innovation, and servant leadership.

• Partner with Product, Business, and Technology leaders to align strategic objectives with execution plans.
• Facilitate quarterly planning, roadmap alignment, dependency management, and delivery synchronization activities.
• Enable teams to optimize flow, reduce impediments, and improve value delivery.
• Guide teams through backlog management, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews, and outcome-based execution.

• Coach senior leaders on organizational design, Agile operating models, governance, and change adoption.
• Identify organizational barriers impacting team performance and recommend sustainable solutions.
• Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, leadership forums, and strategic alignment events.
• Support leadership teams in defining and measuring objectives, outcomes, and success metrics.

• Lead portfolio-level planning activities and support strategic execution across multiple initiatives.
• Drive alignment between business priorities, product roadmaps, and delivery commitments.
• Establish effective dependency management strategies across teams and organizational functions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage risks, assumptions, constraints, and execution challenges.

• Develop and monitor Agile performance metrics, OKRs, flow metrics, and operational health indicators.
• Utilize data-driven insights to identify improvement opportunities and increase delivery effectiveness.
• Measure organizational maturity and guide continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish practices that create sustainable,…