Associate Director

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Department

**The Operating Unit**
The Data Solutions operating unit (OU) is the commercial data business of Moody’s Analytics. A large portion of Moody’s Analytics’ revenue comes from Data Solutions. We are comprised of more than 750 professionals who curate, manage, and provide data to over 7,000 customers worldwide. We are best known for our Orbis database, which is the world’s most comprehensive database of public and private companies. We are also the definitive source of ratings-related data for companies and securities that have been rated by Moody’s Investors Service. There are four market-facing groups within Data Solutions: Data Applications, Data Feeds, Media Solutions, and Contributory Data Solutions. In addition, we have various strategic and operational teams that specialize in curating and sourcing data and keeping all our databases accurate, relevant, and up to date. Any analytical activity depends on reliable and accessible data, and we are proud to be a mission-critical information resource for decision makers around the world.
Our software development lifecycle is inspired by SAFe, with an Agile Release Train. Teams are progressively transitioning to scrum.

Role/Responsibilities
- Roles and Responsibilities
- As Program Manager for Data Solutions, you will report to the manager of the software development PMO team and you will mainly work with product managers, business analysts, developers and Quality Analysts.

Your mission will consist to coordinate the software development activity assigned to 2 scrum teams:

- Ensure the processes are known and applied, including Jira and including the Release train milestones
- Ensure the scope of work is delivered based on prioritisation set by product management
- Ensure visibility
- Help adopt Agile best practices

Your day-to-day responsibilities will span over:

- Act as a scrum master: facilitate daily meetings, sprint planning, retrospectives,..
- Coordinate with other PMO/Scum masters for cross functionalities
- Follow-up specific functionalities
- Coach the team and teach them Agile best practices
- Regularly report the status to upper management

**Qualifications**:
**Education/Experience Required**
- Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degree is a plus.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of project management experience, especially in a technology-intensive or data-intensive environment where Agile is an established practice.
- Several years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
- Experience working with a large and distributed multi-cultural team
- Experience leading others, without direct oversight (transverse management).
- Able to build relationships across two upper levels of management.
- Orientation towards work efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- Highly organized, and attentive to detail.
- Good problem solving and analysis skills.
- Outstanding presentation, communication (oral & written) skills in English is required. Additional fluency in French is highly preferred. Fluency in Dutch/Flemish is a further plus.
- Experience working with JIRA as a planning tool is a plus

Industry certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, CSM, ICAgile, Six Sigma Green Belt, PMP) are a plus.
- Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.