Scrum Master

Job Description:

The Role The Scrum Master plays a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern solutions software as part of a cross-functional agile scrum team. This role will be accountable for acting as a leader to the scrum team, acting to surface and resolve team-level sprint risks and roadblocks while facilitating scrum ceremonies. This role will also act as a change agent, evangelizing the tents of agile and scrum across client Merchant Services and other client Technology, Operations and Service initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward an agile environment

Facilitate Scrum processes and events enabling team maturity and effectiveness leveraging data driven metrics

Create an agile mindset with focus on agile value and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done

Enable teams to develop sprint goals, robust product backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of done / ready

Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning and scope alignment across Product teams

Enable the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team s progress

Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the team to include stakeholder engagement

Protect the team from distractions allowing for focus to meet sprint and program commitments

Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the team coaching each role to enable high performance of the team

Qualifications: Required:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience 6+ years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master or Product Owner

5+ years working as a Scrum Master

Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes

Expert knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing)

Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams or similar agile management?tooling?

Desired :

Experience as a Project Manager in a waterfall environment. Familiarity with both agile and waterfall is a bonus

Demonstrated experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformation with experience as a Scrum Master in a scaled environment