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Bank Of America Scrum Master - Payments Technology
United States, North Carolina, Charlotte
723124298

09.08.2024

Job Description:

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
Serving and supporting the development Team in their quest to do everything possible to predictably deliver high quality value to customers
Experience with User Story review, splitting, and sizing. Knows what a ‘good’ story is
Understanding of Change Management process, create Change request and adhear to Governance process
Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
Work with Release Train Engineer and development team to effectively retro and develop meaningful metrics to support continuous improvement
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

Skills:

Agile Practices
Change Management
Business Acumen
DevOps Practices
Influence
Result Orientation
Collaboration
Solution Delivery Process
Solution Design
Technical Strategy Development

Required Skills:

Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
Experience with assisting a historically waterfall team and organization with adopting Scrum
Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burn down techniques)

Desired Skills