Scrum Master

Start a Rewarding Career with Alliant

Why Alliant?

We’re not a typical financial institution – we’re better. We’re an innovative, fun-loving, highly-engaged group of professionals that are committed to our company and the communities we do business in. We love to recognize and celebrate each other.

Over 90% of our employees say we are a great workplace that is focused on our mission, vision and the future of banking.

What will your day look like?

You will be responsible for facilitating the scrum process, consolidating the information across all teams, providing agile velocity-based schedule forecasting and estimating product backlog items. This individual will also be responsible for managing sprint planning and execution. Resources to do the job require strong knowledge of agile web development, software development life cycles and project management experience.

Responsibilities

Do you see yourself doing this?

Organizes and leads daily Stand Up meetings to ensure timely execution of deliverables

Partners with Product Owners to achieve maximum project return on investment and meet project objectives

Manages sprint planning and execution, including the management of project status and progress

Participates in release planning and scheduling; provides Scrum statistics, identifies project dependencies and creates velocity forecasts

Identifies and manages cross-team dependencies

Ensures high output of development teams by identifying potential issues and roadblocks and works to prevent or remove them

Creates and maintains release burn downs, velocity projections and project forecasts in order to create project visibility and ensure timely project adjustments

Works with and supports Product Owners, Business Analyst, Architects and Software Engineers and other internal partners to plan ahead and prioritize

Communicates sufficient detail so product backlog is being worked on by Scrum teams

Facilitates issue resolution within the team

Works in cross-functional project teams that include Development, Product Management, Strategic Change Office and Software Quality Assurance (SQA) to deliver on strategic initiatives

Facilitates Scrum teams that include team members in Software Engineering, SQA testing and Product Owners

Qualifications

What makes you a great fit?

You’ll be a great fit if in addition to the completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, 5 years of in software development or equivalent combination of education and experience, 2 years proven Scrum Master experience in an agile environment, and you have:

Demonstrated expertise and understanding of software development process, including requirements management and release management

Scrum Master Certification is required

Project Management experience; ability to effectively manage multiple projects in a timely and effective manner

Demonstrated ability to influence without authority

Ability to work as a team player in a collaborative culture

Demonstrated commitment to building relationships and fostering a team-oriented environment

Strong organizational and time management skills

Candidate should possess strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills

When you’re happy, we’re happy!

As a thank you for joining our team, you’ll benefit from:
Competitive medical, dental, and free vision benefits

Competitive compensation plan

Contributions towards gym memberships

Generous PTO and banking holidays off

Still not convinced?

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