Scrum Master - Banking experience

Purpose:

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..

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years’ experience in an Agile Scrum Master role in software development preferably in banking or fintech with over all 10+ Years of experience.
• Experience in working across multiple scrum teams at the same time.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and working experience in agile tools like JIRA is required.
• Good time management skills: ability to set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Ability to communicate effectively at different levels within the organization.
• Previous success working in a dynamic environment with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Fluent in technology and strong knowledge of project and software development methodologies / techniques.
• Solid presentation, facilitation, interview, and workshop skills.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict-management skills.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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