Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for building high- performing teams focused on constantly improving team dynamics and performance using Agile and Compliance Metrics

Responsible for ensuring teams live Agile values and principles and follows processes and practices that the teams agree they will use within Agile (i.e Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) frameworks to self-organize while delivering value to customers

The Scrum Master is a true leader and champions the Agile mindset through effective guidance, coaching, education and through removal of impediments to team progress

Provides hands-on facilitation of major Agile ceremonies across multiple development teams; consults with and advises teams (including the Product Owner) to support a smooth working transition to Agile practices

Enables continuous improvement and facilitates communication across teams to proactively manage dependencies and remove impediments and establish standards for Agile processes and tools

Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making

Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team

Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings

Ensures appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s progress/productivity per Enterprise standards

Performs risk, issue, and dependency management for their teams and ensures compliance with company and regulatory policies and procedures

Ensures release management practices align to enterprise standards and leverages existing change management routines as needed

Acts as Agile SME to teams, product owners, and management

Embraces continuous learning by participating in Scrum Master Community of Practice

For technology related efforts: Understands release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and encourages teams to leverage them

Adheres to Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required)

Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Skills Required:

Have Minimum 10 years of driving Agile Ceremonies and projects in Institutional Business or Private Equity related Business

7 years of relevant experience in process improvement, project management, software engineer, or business/requirements analysis to include relevant work experience with Agile/Scrum

Knowledge of multiple Agile delivery frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevOps)