***All hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or transfer visas for applicants***Local candidates ONLY***
Role responsibilities:
- Act as a servant leader including facilitation, situational awareness, and conflict resolution.
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, to monitor sprint progress.
- Work with business delivery team members to break down deliverables into epics, user stories, and tasks.
- Coach and mentor the business delivery team in agile frameworks and principles and fostering the teamâs ability to self-organize.
- Mediate conflicts to assist the team in making decisions.
- Remove sprint road blocks and facilitate solution development with the team.
- Supports a culture of continuous process improvement through sprint retrospectives and key indicators around team performance.
- Ensures clear communication and organization of all association strategic and business delivery team goals.
- Take responsibility for all product delivery.
- Promote transparency and team empowerment across teams.
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters across teams.
- Perform other functions as assigned.
Required Experience/Education:
- Certification for a Scrum Master (CSM) required.
- Five or more years of experience working as a scrum master in a financial services institution preferred.
- Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with business delivery teams, leadership, senior management and internal/external stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and concisely across business delivery teams.
- Solid understanding of the product development lifecycle.
- In-depth understanding of agile methodologies, and up-to-date knowledge of industry standards and best practices.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to communicate with a broad set of constituencies, both technical and non-technical.
- Basic understanding of software development practices to understand team needs is desired.
- Proficient computer skills, Microsoft office suite
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Experience:
- Financial Services: 1 year (Preferred)
- Scrum Master: 5 years (Preferred)
Location:
- Greenwood Village, CO (Required)
License:
- CSM (Required)
Work authorization:
- United States (Preferred)