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