Sr Scrum Master

WORK TO BE PERFORMED:

• Assist in the “building” of Agile teams/squads within Renaissance Risk Department.
• Provide support to the Product Owner and Delivery Team. This person should personify Agile.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
• Continually improve Scrum Master skills through education and engaging with fellow Scrum Masters.
• Works with Product Owner and Team to plan and execute project implementations.
• Assists in the identification and mitigation of project risks.
• Identifies and acts on coaching opportunities at the individual and team level.
• Conducts regular assessments of a team Agile Maturity and uses the results to guide them to improved performance.
• Coordinates and encourages participation from all team members in scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and longer-term planning exercises (Road Mapping, Release Planning, Release Train Planning).
• Work with Product Owner and Delivery Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data
• Arrange daily stand-ups, facilitate story grooming, coordinate sprint demos, planning and retrospectives.
• Creation of improved IT processes and workflow.
• Creation and improvement of new and existing processes and tools to allow Technology Engineering to deliver better, more predictable, project documentation for the operationalizing of business projects.
• Daily program management throughout the program lifecycle.
• Defining the program governance (controls)

II.         SKILL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Understands Agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
• Experience with agile transformations, building Agile teams and implementing Agile “from scratch”.
• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (diverse team sizes, organizations, cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
• Experience with Scaled Agile (SAFe) / Scrum of Scrums or equivalent.
• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Demonstrated experience and success with organizational process design and implementation.
• Strong background in ITIL and Agile methodologies.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer service mindset.
• Proven experience in project and program management.
• Assist with response to regulatory audits regarding process flows.
• Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting.
• Experience in sprint & release planning, running demos and retrospectives.
• Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to review large amounts of data and analyze and spot trends and provide analysis and insights.
• Experience consolidating data from multiple data sources.
• Experience with Agile PLM tools like JIRA, Portfolio for JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, etc.
• Proven ability to work with toolsets including, but not limited to Jira, MS Project, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and IT systems design.
• Familiarity within a ticketing system such as ServiceNow
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or 8+ years equivalent work experience.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum principles and practices.
• Experience as a Scrum Master for a minimum of 5 years for a software development team that was applying Agile/Scrum principles and practices.
• Strong JIRA experience. (minimum 5 years)
• Scrum Master Certified preferred.
• ITIL Foundations certification preferred.
• PMP certified preferred