Scrum Master

  • Santa Clara, CA
  • Posted 19 days ago | Updated 8 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Scrum product owner
Agile
Continuous improvement
Release management
Capacity management
Project management
Design architecture
Regulatory Compliance
Problem solving
Goal oriented
Data Analysis
Software development
Analytical skill
Customer focus
Conflict resolution
Scrum
Lean methodology
Coaching
Training
Organized
Sprint
Planning
Reporting
Leadership
Management
Oracle Linux
Design
Partnership
Communication
Finance
Budget
Accounting
Capital expenditures
PMBOK
CSM
PSM
Banking
Payments
JIRA
Confluence
Mentorship
Data

Job Details

  • Leader and driver to own the value delivery for one to two pods/scrum teams. This individual will be associated with the Cards value stream at company.
  • Responsibilities include alignment with business stakeholders, partnering with cross-functional partners, and owning technical execution/successful value delivery.
  • Applying agile and lean principles, following scrum practices, coaching/training team members on Agile methodology, and continuous improvement to build high performing, self-organized teams.
  • Assist Product Manager in maintaining a healthy backlog of minimum two sprints.
  • Help identify external dependencies and assist the Product Manager in Sprint and PI planning.
  • Assist Product Manager in updating the sprint-end report after completion of each sprint.
  • Support Product Manager on release planning.
  • Lead and facilitate effective and efficient meetings including all Scrum ceremonies.
  • Remove impediments with sense of urgency to facilitate progress.
  • Assist Pod with prioritizing and managing of sprint backlog to ensure timely and accurate product delivery.
  • Shield the Pod from external interference and ensure the Pod is fully functional and productive.
  • Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and their Pods on deliverables.
  • Prepare and assist RTE with Program Increment (PI) Planning sessions.
  • Participate and contribute to Agile Communities of Practice.
  • Capacity planning and PI planning for the team and ensure that iterations progresses and on track

The Basics:
  1. Expert at Project Management.
  2. Strong execution drive and technical aptitude to deliver customer value
  3. Lead cross functional development from design through delivery
  4. Builds great partnerships and relationships with globally distributed cross-functional partners (e.g. Business, Product, Technology, Design, Architecture, Legal, Compliance, et al.)
  5. Possesses excellent inter-personal skills with amazing written/verbal communication skills
  6. Customer centric with innovative problem-solving skills
  7. Extremely organized, Goal oriented, and experienced in Data analytics as well as Financial budget/Accounting (CapEx/OpEx) principles

Education and Experience:
  1. Bachelors Degree [Technology preferred]
  2. 5+ years of experience serving as Project Manager/Scrum Master in planning and delivering software solutions, such as online and mobile user experiences, underlying transactional systems, and integrating disparate systems

Certifications [preferred]
  1. PMI, PMI-ACP
  2. Certified Scrum Master (CSM)/ Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
  3. Certified Scrum Product Owner

Knowledge
  1. Banking Payments domain experience industry.

Responsibilities:
  1. Leads the software development planning and delivery process
  2. Provides servant leadership and building multiple high-performing Agile scrum teams
  3. Bring transparency to Business, Product and Technology organization about development and grow trust
  4. Leverages tools (e.g. Jira and Confluence) to elicit and define business and technical requirements, track requirements, prioritize features, curate content, sequence deliverables into sprints, and report progress
  5. Good problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to coach and mentor all roles on a development scrum team

Competencies
  1. Leadership
  2. Customer Focus
  3. Collaborative: Ability to partner with cross-functional partners to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
  4. Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate (written/verbal) well with all levels of the organization
  5. Innovative problem solving with strong data crunching and analytical skills
  6. Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace
  7. Autonomy/Empowerment: Must be able to guide team(s) to self-organization
  8. Open/Transparent: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and technology and build trust amongst partners
  9. Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and suggest alternatives or different approaches