Scrum Master

The Team: Our Technology Governance & Delivery Enablement team at S&P Dow Jones Indices is responsible for establishing effective portfolio planning and execution patterns in order to drive operational excellence and fostering a culture of collaboration by using lean portfolio management and agile development methodologies. As a member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating our technology delivery leveraging agile.

The Impact: We are in search of a motivated individual who is ready to take their career to the next level. This person will play a pivotal role to ensure we adopt Agile methodologies, and it represents an exciting and visible opportunity to join our team during a dynamic period of fundamental organizational and operational changes.

Responsibilities:

• Act as Servant leader to an agile team(s), educating and coaching agile team(s) to maximize efficiencies and performance on Agile practices, focusing on delivering customer value and embracing continuous improvement
• Coaching the team to get self-organized and improve
• Identify and manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across scrum teams
• Facilitate Team Events including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives, PI Planning.
• Be a partner, collaborating with the Product Owner and Technical leads to understand business problem(s), product(s), and ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel
• Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate transparency.
• Work with peer Scrum Masters and the Delivery Managers to ensure excellent execution.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements in your teams Agile execution
• Building a trusting and safe environment
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

What we are looking for:

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Capability to apply SAFe framework
• Worked with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats etc.)
• Experience with some of commonly used tools Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS Teams, SharePoint
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with various stakeholders
• Basic knowledge of lean portfolio management
• Embrace a growth mindset and Team first mentality
• Identify and mitigate risks to meet team deliverable commitments
• Proven track record of identifying and improving Agile execution on a team
• Bachelors degree or higher education in a related area such as finance, economics, information technology or business

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification as an added advantage
• Prior roles as agile coach preferred
• Relevant certifications are a plus (PSM, CSM, PMP, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Previous experience as a team lead