Scrum Master – Technology Team

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Company: JPMorgan Chase
Location: Lewisville, TX 75067

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As a Scrum Master you will act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open, approachable, and collaborative and enjoy working with passionate people. They are proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We are excited to see what you will bring to our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
  • Facilitate and coach a sprint team through all ceremonies towards product delivery.
  • Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
  • Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvements events
  • Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team
  • Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
  • Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog including empirical planning
  • Appreciate the depths of Lean and Agile practices and principles and help teams appreciate them
  • Teach systems thinking and servant leadership
  • Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
  • Use technical and product knowledge to build an understanding of both sprint and product backlogs

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
  • Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master Certification preferred

  • Expertise with Agile and Scrum Frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization

  • Technical experience – professional experience with a delivery team.

  • Sound understanding of and experience with Scaling framework such as LeSS, SAFe and various other Agile frameworks including Kanban, XP

  • Experience with Agile toolset, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence) required

  • Experience with delivering with Release Train and JIRA plug ins including Portfolio, Story Mapping, and EazyBI.

  • Ability to coach and mentor team members in continuous improvement for effective delivery.

  • Ability to guide Product Owners with best practices and product roadmap and release train delivery

  • Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels

  • Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)

  • Ability to work closely with Program Managers to provide assistance in best practices in executive reporting used in Agile based delivery projects

  • Executive presence and strong communication skills

  • Knowledge of industry wide technology strategies

Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world’s important corporations, governments and institutions. You’ll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits. CIB provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world,
When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you’re not just working at a global financial institution. You’re an integral part of one of the world’s biggest tech companies. In 20 technology centers worldwide, our team of 50,000 technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $10B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will are transforming the financial services industry.

At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we’re building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you’re looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.