Description
The business: Financial Services
The job: Scrum Master for software development teams, applying Agile principles and practices to facilitate an iterative development environment with new Agile teams as well as existing Agile teams
Key Responsibilities Include
- Motivate and coach team for continuous improvements towards consistent delivery of working software each Sprint
- Collaborate with other SMs
- Willing to support, provide assistance, and mentor other SMs and teams based on previous experiences
- Foster continuous improvement and self-organization in the team.
- Coordinate Sprint ceremonies - Release Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospectives
- Work with Product Owner to develop, groom and prioritize the backlog; ensuring a healthy product backlog
- Collaborate between Product owners and the Development team.
- Ability to coordinate with multiple Agile and non-Agile teams to deliver large initiatives
- Maintain Sprint artifacts and metrics including: velocity/progress and team performance, issues and risks, and handle communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, plus more than 5-7 years of Program/Project Management experience with more than 3-5 years of experience in managing Agile/Scrum teams in a technical environment.
- A solid understanding of Agile and Agile transformation with the right attitude and personality to continue to improve through coaching and teamwork
- Ability to work with and build new Agile teams as well as strengthen existing Agile teams.
- Experience working in a large scale Scrum project with Scrum of scrums exposure.
- Conversant in Jira, Kanban, Continuous Integration and other Agile methodologies
- Knowledge of situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and team empowerment
- Demonstrated experience managing projects using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
- Excellent project management skills to ensure that efforts track to delivery and that stakeholders are kept up to date on status and changes
- Experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), MS Project and collaboration tools like Confluence and SharePoint
- Scrum Master Certification, Certified Scrum Professional is preferred