Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!
Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.
Position: Lead Scrum Master
Location: CHANDLER, Arizona, 85286
Term: 6 months
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity.
- Guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
- Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
- Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide the teams on methods to escalate.
- Deliver capabilities using agile practices while following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.
- Partner with discipline managers to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards.
- Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the teams and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
- Interact with internal customers.
- Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
- Train other Scrum Masters and serve as a mentor to less experienced staff.
Is this a good fit? (Requirements):
- Skills at a glance: Agile Coaching, Agile/Digital Transformation, API Integrations, Change Mgmt., Contract/SOW Negotiation, Employee Experience (EX), Governance, Risk, Controls, Implementation & Execution, Intelligent Automation, Low Code Platform Config, Process Improvement, Product Analysis/Mgmt., Quality Assurance/UAT, Road-mapping, SaaS Platforms, Security/Provisioning, Solution Design, Strategic Planning, System Administration, Training (Classroom, 1:1), Vendor Mgmt.
- Tools: Jira Software, Jira Service Mgmt., Jira Align, Confluence, Exalate, Kofax TotalAgility 7.5, UiPath RPA, MS Azure DevOps/TFS, MS Azure, MS Office/Visio/SharePoint, MS Teams, Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, VersionOne, Freshdesk ITSM, HP Quality Center ALM, ServiceNow
- Frameworks & Process: Agile (Scrum and Kanban), CI/CD DevOps Principles, Business Process Mgmt 2.0, NIST Cybersecurity, Professional Coaching, SAFe 5.0
- 5+ years of Practicing Agile Scrum Master experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.