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Scrum Master
Alpharetta, GA
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Responsibilities

* Lead as Scrum Master and oversee project development with Agile meetings and ensure effective completion and delivery

* Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement.

* Develop team norms and balance workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners.

* Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations

* Work closely with Product Owners, other scrum masters, business analyst and QA to progress along squad agenda

* Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies - Sprint planning, host story grooming, daily stand up, test plan and test cases reviews, sprint demos, retrospectives etc.

* Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.

* Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensuring SDLC artifact adherence, runbook coordination, and deployment support.

* Coordinate with partner technology teams on deployment preparations and execution (e.g., deployment script management, support team review and documentation, host deployment verification calls, and lead deployment issue resolutions).

* Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to senior stakeholders.

* Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony

* Monitor team performance and balance workload and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work more efficiently* Partner with Agile Coaches to identify and implement team Agile training requirements


Required Skills

* 5 - 7 years of relevant experience in a large complex banking organization or major consulting firm acting in a Scrum Master and project management capacity.

* Highly versed in Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies

* Demonstrated ability to effectively lead cross functional teams

* Demonstrated ability to partner and liaison between business users and a technical development team

* Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.

* Proven servant leader - Must be able to garner respect from their team and offer solutions by getting into the details

* Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

* Hands on experience to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path

* Experience estimating resources and participants needed to achieve project goals

* Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency

* Experience in Agile project management software/tools (JIRA / Confluence preferred)

* Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint


Desired Skills

* Engineering Degree from a reputed institute

* PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification**

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification*

Previous experience with emphasis on cash management and payments experience

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