Agile Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager with Banking at Remote

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Hope you are doing great. This is Saranya from ValueMomentum. Please find the Job Description below.  And share me the resumes at saranya.yallala@valuemomentum.com                     

  

Title: Agile Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager with Banking

Duration: Long Term

Location: Remote

 

Job Description:

Agile Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager:

 

 Agile Scrum Master / Technical Project Manager with solid experience leading cross functional team initiatives to support the Technology Portfolio. We are currently looking for an experienced Scrum Master to join our Enterprise Technology Operations team, to support the ServiceNow platform team.  The Scrum Master will be crucial in supporting an upcoming transition from Waterfall to Agile delivery.  This individual will oversee how the whole process is played out from beginning to end. This person should be able to work with the team and develop and empower the individuals, helping them achieve their full potential as developers and as individuals. 

Responsibilities:

• Exemplify agile values and principles, championing the mindset and behaviors required to enable high performing teams.
• Serves as the team coach, continuously striving for relentless improvement and building trust. Responsible for facilitation and coaching of all team-level ceremonies, as well as discussions to promote efficiencies and lean thinking.
• Partner closely with the product owner and product management for alignment of priorities and overall management of team backlog.
• Ensure stakeholder and business engagement during backlog refinement and sprint reviews.
• Provide stakeholder insight into the iteration plans and leverages data to improve delivery, advocating for transparency and discussion that promotes continuous improvement.
• Identify gaps in team maturity with agile practices and provides relevant coaching or training needed to advance.
• Manage dependencies identified by team.
• Manage impediments and partners as required to overcome them.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze successful completion of long- and short-term milestones/goals.
• Manage agile budget and financials reconciliation and adjusts project constraints based on financial analysis.
• Demonstrate adherence and strict compliance to defined policies and procedures to effectively manage risk.
• Remain informed about corporate practices, industry trends and best practices concerning Agile.
• Participate in communities of practice to support growth and development among colleagues.
• Organize and facilitate agile ceremonies and lead teams through the PI planning process.
• Provide leadership and support to team members to optimize their productivity and maximize their contributions.
• Plan and lead project activities that will ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards, and meet customer expectations.
• Create status reports that effectively communicate project status, budget compliance, and impediments to completion.
• Complete all required project documentation to ensure compliance with PMO governance standards.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Directs and monitors work efforts, identifies resource needs, performs quality reviews, and escalates issues appropriately.
• Create business cases to support recommended solutions.
• Identify and document risks and issues. Collaborate with workstream members to develop and execute mitigation plans to address them.
• Responsible for tracking costs, key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of customers.
• Compose reports to communicate team progress, project status, risks and issues.
• Facilitate the completion, approval, and storage of project artifacts

Qualifications:

• 5 plus years experience in Agile methods or frameworks (i.e. Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP) or Kanban).
• Experience in Agile scaling frameworks (preferably SAFe).
• Hands on experience with project management processes, methodologies and tools, resource and change management practices and techniques, strategic planning or other directly related experience.
• Strong working knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach.
• PMI-ACP or Scrum Master certifications strongly preferred.
• Advanced knowledge in scope management, financial tracking, scheduling and resource management.
• Experience with data analytics is a plus
• Advanced working knowledge in project budget & financials reconciliation.
• Ability to communication with various stakeholders and audiences.
• Ability to identify, analyze and resolve issues.
• Excellent negotiation and facilitation abilities.
• Requires a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or related degree (combination of education and experience may meet requirements).
• Experience working as a project manager in a software development environment (more than 6 years total experience leading projects in agile and waterfall methodologies is required).
• Requires a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• High-level of proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and ADO.