Lead Scrum Master

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Responsible for following and promoting Agile methodology and all related scrum ceremonies within an agile team. Enables the team to work as effectively as possible. Ensures impediments are resolved and the team meets sprint objectives and that releases stay on track. Coaches the team to own and continually improve their process and practices.

Position is in Discover’s Mobile application team that supports Bank and card applications.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates team activities, including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning, and team retrospectives. Manages sprint release deliverables and proactively identifies and resolves impediments. Ensures sprint releases stay on track and updates sprint activities in Agile planning and execution tracking tool. Communicates Agile team’s progress, dependencies, and impediments. Participates in program increment (PI) planning events.
• Identifies dependencies between Agile teams then communicates and resolves dependencies.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in Agile, Scrum, or related field
• In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of experience in Agile, Scrum, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• Safe Agile experience is plus.
• Financial institution experience a plus
• Mobile application experience a plus.

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