Scrum Master - Manager

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Job Functions/Duties and Responsibilities

• Experience with scaled agile frameworks
• Serve as Scrum Master leading Agile teams focusing on projects for High Networth Lending.  Oversee project development and ensure effective completion and delivery.
• Work closely with Product Owners, other Scrum Masters and BAs to progress along squad agenda.
• Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations. 
• Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous Agile improvements.
• Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies – Sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand up, test plan and test cases reviews, sprint demos, retrospectives etc.
• Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
• Deep understanding with the ability to maintain team metrics and report project statuses on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to project stakeholders.
• Strong Collaboration skills
• Experience and fluent understanding of Jira
• Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony.
• Should be clearly experienced in giving presentations to audiences a various levels in the organization while also have active listening skills
• Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensure SDLC artifact adherence runbook coordination and deployment support.
• Coordinate with team on deployment preparations and execution.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of proven experience in a large complex banking organization or a similar organization (e.g. major consulting organization).
• 3+ years of hands on experience as a Scrum Master.
• Skilled in Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Ability to understand system flows, interface details and system infrastructure.
• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
• Ability to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents; including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.
• Ability to Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to improve Agile performance.
• Ability to review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
• Experience in creating a collaborative team environment and provide constructive feedback in order to drive Agile maturity.
• Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, and ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Strong familiarity with Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).
• Proficient with Jira, MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint.

Desired Skills

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance or Information Technology

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