Scrum Master / Project Manager

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Company: JP Morgan Chase
Location: Columbus, OH 43240 (Far North area)

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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, 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 Include:
  • Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
  • Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
  • Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvements events.
  • Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and organization
  • Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clears impediments for the team
  • Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instills the same in the team(s) you coach

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

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of Project Management experience with at least 3 years in leading Agile teams as a Scrum Master
  • Expertise in one or more other Agile frameworks (Lean, Kanban, XP, TDD, CI) and how they can be applied in a product development / program delivery environment.
  • Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels without direct authority.
  • Able to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the teams.
  • Familiarity with modern software engineering tchniques such as Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Test-Driven Development and other automated acceptance testing techniques
  • Ability to coach and mentor the team to realize their highest potential
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a rapidly changing, fluid and dynamic environment
  • Facilitate product backlog maintenance, release and sprint planning, story writing and backlog prioritization.
  • Motivate and enable the delivery teams to be self-organized and feel empowered
  • Ability to listen, analyze, influence, negotiate and use judgment to solve complex issues in order to accomplish project goals
  • Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence is desirable.
  • Agile or Project Management-related certification (Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional, Project Management Professional) is desirable.
  • Must have worked with software development teams to deliver highly distributed and scalable systems and understands the system architecture, data and control workflow and technologies used

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Global Security Technology (GST) within Corporate Technology (CT) provides strategic application development and production support to the firm-wide Global Security & Investigations team. This organization is responsible for all aspects of security including physical access, fraud, pre-employment processing, aviation, crisis management and other related areas.

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 organizations. In our global technology centers, 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 $11B annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that 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.