Scrum Master
Posted 7 days ago by 1761899869
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: This Scrum Master position is focused on supporting product and software development teams in implementing a hybrid Scrum framework to enhance the delivery of critical Banking applications. The role involves mentoring teams, facilitating meetings, and ensuring adherence to SDLC practices while improving processes and communication among stakeholders. Candidates should have experience with agile methodologies and tools like Jira, and while experience in Banking and Mainframe systems is preferred, it is not essential. The position is open to remote candidates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Project Coordination: Uses agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. Monitors project progress, provides timely feedback, and drives a culture of agility and learning.
- Communication: Facilitates daily team meetings to get updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track. Hosts regular sessions to share updates with product stakeholders about how the project is progressing. Ensures that the team is meeting deadlines with the desired outcome.
- Business Support: Plans and organizes demos and product/system testing. Ensures the proper use of collaborative processes and removes impediments for the scrum team.
- Reporting: Tracks project processes, deliverables, and financials. Prepares and presents status reports to stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Expertise in Jira
- Understanding of waterfall, agile, and iterative development/support models
- Experience in Banking and Mainframe systems (preferred but not essential)
- Strong communication and facilitation skills
- Ability to mentor and motivate teams
- Self-starter with a proactive approach to problem-solving
- Experience with SDLC practices and governance
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
This position supports the product and software development teams in the adoption of a hybrid Scrum framework to optimize delivery of project, enhancement and mandatory upgrades for critical Banking applications.
Job Description:
This position will ensure that the development teams follow a hybrid scrum framework and SDLC practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. Assists in increasing team efficiency and provides motivation and guidance for process improvement. This position requires an understanding of waterfall, agile and iterative development/support models and will adjust work products and delivery accordingly. This position will help team members and stakeholders refine requirements and communicates them through the use of specifications, reports, project plans, or other forms of documentation. Ensures compliance through monitoring and analysis. Experience with Banking, Mainframe systems preferred but not essential. This position requires expertise in Jira, adherence to governance/sdlc requirements, must be a self-starter and willing to engage with cross functional stakeholders. Remote candidates are an option.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Project Coordination Uses agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. Monitors project progress, provides timely feedback, and drives a culture of agility and learning.
- Communication - Facilitates daily team meetings to get updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track. Hosts regular sessions to share updates with product stakeholders about how the project is progressing. Ensures that the team is meeting deadlines with the desired outcome.
- Business Support - Plans and organizes demos and product/system testing. Ensures the proper use of collaborative processes and removes impediments for the scrum team.
- Reporting - Tracks project processes, deliverables, and financials. Prepares and presents status reports to stakeholders.