Senior Scrum Master

About this role:

• Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Scrum Master.

In this role, you will:

• Facilitate the scrum process with cross functional impact that involve moderately complex projects, non-projects, or maintenance work
• Guide the scrum teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint
• Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance
• Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met
• Partner with discipline managers about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards
• Facilitate the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the teams
• Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Interact with internal customers
• Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Agile Scrum Master experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Scrum, Agile, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of Practicing Agile Scrum Master experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, education.
• 4+ years of Experience in Scrum Master role.
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts.
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks.
• Problem solving and conflict-resolution Skills
• Excellent communication, Interpersonal and Mentoring Skills.
• Scrum Master certification is a plus.

Job Expectations:

• Guide the team and organization on how to leverage Agile/Scrum practices and values to maximize the delivery of business value
• Work with the team to continuously improve by identifying areas of opportunity that will maximize the value delivered and happiness of the team
• Advocate for collaboration, transparency, inspection, and adaptation
• Anticipate and address potential or actual impediments to team delivery
• Partner with product owner and tech lead to ensure team focus is on delivering the items with highest business value
• Champion continuous improvements in processes and development techniques applied by delivery team and entire technology organization
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership on applying Agile thinking across the organization
• Coach the team to self-organization
• Coach the team to maintain a high level of data integrity (i.e. in Jira, Agile Team Registry, etc.)
• Facilitate and/or participate in Scrum events (Daily Scrum, Product Scrum of Scrums, Sprint Review, Refinement, and Retrospective)
• Mentor and coach less experienced Scrum Masters
• Actively participate as a thought leader in the larger Scrum Master community
• Build & evolve a reporting strategy that enhances collaboration and gives leadership a view of overall initiative & team health

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We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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