Scrum Master

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Shapes the development and implementation of the One Agile Way of Working so that it can continuously improve. Promotes the culture appropriate to the Agile Way of Working and is the figurehead of the associated behavior. The Scrum Master engages people by using clear communication, giving and receiving constructive feedback, understanding and simplifying complex issues, and contributing to the desired culture change.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
2. Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
3. Knowledge and experience on organizing and running Sprint. Ensuring the squad adheres to Sprint cadence.
4. Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
5. Works with Agile Coach and other Scrum Masters to ensure that Dashboards are aligned.
6. Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
7. Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
8. Ensures the Azure Boards are up to date. Works with Squad, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
9. Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
10. Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, burndown and other Scrum techniques.

Minimum Requirements:

1. 7-10 years of work experience.
2. Must Have: Azure DevOps, CSM/Scrum certification, and working in Agile projects.
3. Nice to Have: Banking and Financial Services Experience.
4. Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
5. Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, Automated Testing, Agile Games.