Scrum Master - Auto Lending

Description

Facilitates the scrum process on scrum teams with significant cross-functional impacts involving project, non-project, or maintenance work.

Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.

Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.

Coaches scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.

Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.

Facilitates Scrum of Scrums.

Facilitates and is accountable for owning the Scrum and/or Scaled Agile ceremonies for the scrum team(s).

Partners with Product Owners, Program or Project Managers to communicate delivery of work product from the scrum team(s) and escalates key risks and issues

 Requirements

6+ years as a practicing scrum master 

Experience in Financial Services Industry ~ mid-large size organizations

8+ years business experience in a matrixed management environment (e.g., product development, project management, implementation) 

Deep understanding of full SecDevOps and DevOps 

Platform and cross team dependency management 

Test Driven Development 

Behavior Driven Development 

Accredited Scrum Master Certification 

Accredited SAFe and/or LeSS Certification

SDLC processes knowledge 

Work breakdown and sizing methodologies 

Agile based requirements management – process & tools 

Code quality and scanning

Test automation 

Code branching/merging 

Release management