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Role: Agile Delivery Program Lead/Sr Scrum Master
Location: Fort Mill, SC: initially 6 months remote then onsite with hybrid mode
Job description –
Role Responsibilities: - Facilitating and coaching the Sprint Planning, Sprint Retro and Sprint Review events to ensure they have the desired outcome
- Leading the Scrum Team on effective Daily Scrum and crafting Sprint Goals
- Acting as a point of contact for the team – to ease the collaboration with the wider organization
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Working with the Product Owner, BA (Proxy Product Owner) and Scrum Team in product planning and process control
- Driving the team on how to get the most out of self-organization and filling in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Working with the Scrum Team to remove blockers, including working with the wider development organization to highlight and resolve impediments
- Coaching the Scrum Team in Product Backlog Item (PBI) writing techniques (e.g., 3Cs, User Stories, Use Cases etc.)
- Working with the Proxy and Product Owner to establish project roadmaps and project timescales • Working with stakeholders at all levels, to help set expectations
- Coaching the Scrum Team to work with outside influences (e.g., Production Issues and other high priority work)
- Coaching the team in Agile Development Practices (e.g., Swarming, T-Shaping, TDD, BDD, Automated Testing)
- Working with the Development Managers & QA Managers to help develop individuals
- Working within the Agile Community of Practice, to coach teams and the organization to adopt the Scrum Framework
Skills/Experience Required: - Experience is playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification, or similar, would be expected.
- Experience of working within a multi-team environment, where scrum team’s success and output relies on collaborating, synchronizing, and working with other scrum teams and the wider enterprise.
- Strong partner management and influencing skills
- Strong and confident social skills, able to build close relationships and interact with colleagues at various levels
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, tam building, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Strong understanding of JIRA, agile metrics, and Kanban techniques.
- Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
- Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team (Cloud, Java, Microservices).
- Ability to translate vision and strategy into clear priorities and direction
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or equivalent
- Experience with data management and data focused projects.
- Good experience in AWS preferred.
- Proven hands-on experience in delivering large-scale technical programs.
- Proven experience of working in a large scale, Financial Services, Top Tier Investment or Retail Bank or a wider Financial Services Organization
- Understanding of financial and related market data.
- Experience working in a financial information technology environment (i.e., Financial Services, FinTech, Investment Management, etc.)
- Experience of working in a sophisticated, high-paced environment with a global team.
- Index and Benchmark domain knowledge would be a plus
- Experience in managing delivery teams.
- Stakeholder engagement experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external client/vendor relationships.
Regards,
Shikhar Bharti VBeyond Corporation Technical Recruiter – IT Staffing USA Desk # +1-(908) 864-5856 | Fax # (866) 614-3884 E: Shikharb@vbeyond.com | www.vbeyond.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shikhar-bharti-8b14a9244/ 390 Amwell Road, Suite # 107, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 Note – VBeyond is fully committed to Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity. |
