Scrum Master IV

Scrum Master IV in Charlotte, NC Posted 05/21/22

• Top 25 U.S. digital financial services company committed to developing award-winning technology and services.
• Named one of the top three fastest-growing banking brands in the U.S. in 2020.
• Offers a full suite of products including mortgage lending, personal lending, and a variety of deposit and other banking products (savings, money-market, and checking accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), and individual retirement accounts (IRAs)), self-directed and investment-advisory services, and capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.
• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered.

• Fast paced, highly collaborative, teamwork-oriented environment
• Make an immediate impact in this high visibility role
• Ability to drive change within the organization with a focus on advancement in technology and programs
• Top-notch leadership committed to developing people

• Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
• ?Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
• Establishing team level cadence and driving team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc.).
• Work with the teams to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs.
• Escalate to leadership where needed and where possible remove impediments for the team(s).
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.
• Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other scrum teams.
• Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams.
• Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team.
• Use historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments.
• Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
• Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
• Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.
• Identify and remove technical and/or organizational challenges standing in the way of allowing your team to reach its full potential

• 5 years of ScrumMaster experience
• 5+ years of information technology experience
• Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, ACP)
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience
• Thorough understanding and experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Data-driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery.
• Controls a program level view and status and uses the information to communicate on multiple projects and programs at a time.
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate. Ability to understand and communicate technical issues.
• Highly adaptable to changing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.
• Situational awareness of when to listen and when to be assertive.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Ability to keep team engaged and on task.