Remote Sr. Scrum Master

The Sr Scrum Master is a “servant leader” who helps teams follow Scrum. The Sr Scrum Master has expert level understanding of the Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto. This person is sought out to coach other teams on the subtleties of Scrum.

They partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and product delivery, planning and executing on product tasks and driving for results through both product team members and stakeholders. They leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion, carefully balancing the three constraints of cost, time, and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise.

They ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in product status updates. They serve as a leader in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology.

- Provides expert consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintaining the product roadmap, release plan and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
- Responsible for leading multiple product teams or large initiatives monitoring progress across all products to ensure on target and providing needed support to remove obstacles to achieving product deliverables.
- Responsible for leading product teams and managing all activities (including strategy and ideation), in a product life-cycle (initiation, planning, executing/controlling, and closing) associated with high visibility products that are long-term, across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses.
- Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration.
- Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes, by analyzing current and new product management processes.
- Provide leadership to assigned product managers to establish product plans and objectives that result in on-time and on-budget outcome.
- Track progress and provide updates on any changes in strategy or priorities.
- Effectively communicate relevant status and initiative level metrics to senior executives on the progress of individual products and the overall initiative.

- Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs.
- Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence. Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Product Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities.
- Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))

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- 6+ years in a Scrum Master role
- Experience partnering with technical teams, specifically software engineers that are doing hands-on work with enterprise integration, API development
- An excellent storyteller who can work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to tell the story of what the teams are creating
-- Ability to partner with technical teams and bring them out of their shell
- Financial services experience
- Ideally, comes from a hands-on technical background in software development and moved into Scrum Master work

- Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
- Expertise with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
- High level of organization and attention to detail
- Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.

- Experience in leading agile teams in SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban contexts
- Strong ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities
- Experience managing essential risk mitigation activities including identification, tracking, follow-up, escalation, and contingency planning on risks, issues
- Demonstrates mastery of software development processes and procedures, including test driven development, incremental development approaches and technical change management.
- Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics
Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
- Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel
- Adept at financial management to administer budgets across multiple products and ensure the product meets its requirements for return on investment.

- No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises large complex product teams with cross-functional team members.

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Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.