Full-Time Scrum Master

Responsibilities

• Project Coordination - Uses agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. Monitors project progress, provides timely feedback, and drives a culture of agility and learning.
• Communication - Facilitates daily team meetings to get updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track. Hosts regular sessions to share updates with product stakeholders about how the project is progressing. Ensures that the team is meeting deadlines with the desired outcome.
• Business Support - Plans and organizes demos and product/system testing. Ensures the proper use of collaborative processes and removes impediments for the scrum team.
• Reporting - Tracks project processes, deliverables, and financials. Prepares and presents status reports to stakeholders.
• Leads Agile team ceremonies - Daily stand-up, Spring planning, Sprint review, Retrospective.
• Coaches team in Agile mindset, methodologies, processes, practices, and tools.
• Partners with Product Owner/Delivery Lead and Technology Lead to ensure work in sprints are progressing and continues to align with the quarterly planning commitments (surfacing issues to PM as needed).
• Works to remote any team level risks or impediments keeping the team from completing work and escalates any risks and impediments that cannot be resolved or are project level risks.
• Shields the team from external interference and ensures the team is fully functional and productive.
• Ensures good team JIRA and Confluence hygiene that accurately reflects the current state of their work.
• Tracks predictability of the team to deliver (burndown, velocity, etc) and monitors for continuous improvement.
• Ensures team is aligned to SDLC process and standards.
• Team advocate who supports and monitors overall health and agile maturity of the team to optimize happiness.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience

Preferred Qualificaitons:

• Scrum Master Certification
• Banking domain knowledge
• Payments knowledge