Agile Scrum Master

Scrum Master:
BOA-ScrumMaster-1
Approved Locations:
Charlotte NC
Pennington NJ
Jersey City NJ
Job Description
This role is a servant leader who is responsible for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by one or more Scrum teams. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating Scrum ceremonies managing dependencies for the team providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress enabling continuous improvement within the team. This role ensures the impediments are resolved quickly the team follows their agreed-to processes and that there is a good relationship between the Product Owner and the development team. They promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles empowering the team to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential.

Primary Skill
Others - Please specify
Secondary Skill

Tertiary Skill

Required Skills
Responsibilities:

Work under guidance and mentorship from senior Scrum Masters or Agile Coaches.

Guide and coach one or more teams on Scrum practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies for example Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Backlog Refinement Sprint Demos/Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.

In a Scaled Agile model facilitate scaled planning for the team for example Pre Planning/ Preparation and PI Planning Events and represent the team in Scrum of Scrums/ART Syncs.

Help the team define norms/agreements like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done and enforce the agreements.

Ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog in collaboration with the PO.

Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team.

Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the Agile team to support value delivery and Sprint commitments.

Provide visibility into the Agile teams delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders.

Enable the team to become high performing through collaboration and a relentless focus on continuous improvement including cross-skilling across the team.

Measure team delivery maturity and performance and review the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities.

Mentor more junior Scrum Masters.

Governance Stakeholder Management Sets agenda and defines the artifacts needed for governance forums Collects feedback from customers and stakeholders to measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.

Risk Management - Identifies risk/dependencies and quantifies the impact it has on the business/technology and what controls are to be used to resolve.

Financials Resource Management - Ability to provide input for financial planning. Understands the variances.

Planning Execution Process - Facilitates team planning ceremonies against backlog/prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments for one team. Ability to answer teams Agile/waterfall framework questions.

Desired Skills

Solution Delivery Process - Understands all roles and responsibilities within their team and uses the tool sets within the software lifecycle.

Business Products Strategy - Working knowledge of products services business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used within their business area.

Solution Design - Has knowledge of software development but has not been involved in hands-on application development/coding.

Test Engineering - Has general awareness of testing practices but has not involved in hands-on testing.

DevOps and Release Automation - Basic knowledge of automation and continuous delivery practices. Ability to participate in their role and utilize necessary tools with minimal guidance.

Application Data Architecture - Basic awareness of architecture and design. Ability to comply with bank standards for information security and business architectures.

Analytical Thinking - Demonstrates ability to identify root causes to solve complex problems in highly unstable situations.

Promotes Collaboration - Collaborates with own team and across teams. Asks questions to obtain views from others.

Influences Decisions - Presents their own point of view with a clear rationale facts and figures. Clearly displays how their proposed solution or course of action is superior to other options by using facts/evidence to support it.

Achieves Sustainable Results - Tracks the effectiveness of solutions through KPI's. Incorporates technical and financial factors when comparing different approaches to solutions.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st 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.