Scrum Master
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*Position Summary:*


* The organization is on an agile, product and digital transformation journey and as a Scrum Master, you will be guiding multiple agile teams through their journey and help drive agile transformation across products and lines of business.

* As a Scrum Master, you will act as a leader and on-team coach for multiple scrum teams.

* We are looking for a dynamic, collaborative personality that can champion the cause of the agile movement within the organization.

* You are passionate about leading change, helping shift mindset and influence culture change.

* Fostering new ways of thinking, new ways of working and building new capabilities that will help unlock new possibilities.

* You will play a fundamental role in achieving our ambitious objectives and work closely with partners across product teams to design innovative solutions and balance challenging priorities and demands.

* You are laser-focused on operational excellence and customer satisfaction and you'll need to wear many hats, so flexibility and a can-do attitude are critical!


*Major Responsibility:*



* * Embrace the agile mindset, advocate and champion agile across the Digital organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using agile and lean principles

* * Provide creative solutions to agile transformation issues: resistance to change, limited resources, conflicting priorities, lack of accountability

* * Ability to utilize agile methods in a flexible manner that often includes traditional project management which can include hard deadlines/fixed dates at times

* * Understand the various agile frameworks, events and artifacts (i.e. scrum, Kanban), where they are fit for purpose and how to implement/apply with new and existing teams

* * Manage and facilitate team ceremonies

* * Coach teams in agile principles and practices, roles and responsibilities, and frameworks

* * Foster a continuous improvement environment in order to build high-performing, agile teams

* * Track and report on metrics for teams to measure progress, effectiveness of agile adoption, and agile maturity of the teams


*Preferred Skills/Experience*



* Demonstrated growth mindset

* * Positive attitude and ability to inspire the team toward continuous improvement

* * Ability to partner with Product, Tech, UX and Engineering disciplines

* * Direct experience with big room planning and cross-team coordination

* * Strong knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge

* * Understanding of basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development

* * Experience successfully delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule

* * Demonstrated ability to influence team and key stakeholders

* * Excellent presentation skills

* * Ability to work in ambiguity and iterate to a solution - can estimate and solve basic business problems without explicit direction

* * Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes

* * Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution, budgeting and time management skills

* * CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification a plus


*Required Skills/Knowledge:*



* * Strong knowledge of Agile values, principles and practices

* * Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification a plus

* * Knowledge of scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, and other Agile frameworks Comfort with agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MURAL is a plus

* * Experience with distributed teams, in multiple time zones is a plus

* * Great teammate - should be ready to go beyond to help the immediate team and do not be averse to not shy away from asking for help if needed.

* * Eagerness to learn new ways of working and bring new ideas to the table


*Basic Qualifications*



* * Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

* * One or more years of experience as a Scrum Master

* * Five or more years of experience in related field