Support the product development process:
- Facilitate Roadmap planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other activities as needed
- Provide status update to senior management and facilitate the scrum of scrums.
- Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
Scrum-related meetings:
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Maintain process documentation
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles
- Lead multiple Agile teams in scrum-related activities
Support the Product Owner:
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
Support the delivery team:
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
- Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Empower the team to self-organize
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or military experience
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master
- At least 2 years of Scrum Master experience
- At least 2 years of Financial Services industry experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
- Experience with Version 1 or other Agile / Software Management tools
- Collaborative approach to driving decisions
- Experience facilitating with geographically disperse team members
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
- A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
- Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills | 