This job is responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams. Key responsibilities include optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered for medium to high complexity projects and programs. Job expectations include ensuring the team resolves impediments quickly, following agreed-to processes, and maintaining a good relationship with the product management team and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Provides visibility into the Agile team’s delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
- Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
- Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team
- Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog
- Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles
- Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncs
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years’ experience in Scrum Master experience
- Deep knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
- Experience with the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders.
- Proficient with various tools including JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to juggle multiple demands and reprioritize as necessary to align with changing business objectives.
Desired:
- Certifications : Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Certified Scrum Master (PMI-ACP)
- Experience with cloud security products.
- Familiarity with financial services industry
Skills:
- Agile Practices
- Business Acumen
- DevOps Practices
- Influence
- Result Orientation
- Collaboration
- Solution Delivery Process
- Solution Design
- Technical Strategy Development
- Test Engineering
- Application Development
- Architecture
- Automation
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
1st shift (United States of America)