Schwab is recruiting a driven, results-oriented Senior Scrum Master who shares our passion for technology, innovation and excellence. Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform peopleâs lives by changing the way the world invests. We are in the midst of re-architecting and rebuilding our core enterprise software platform to support our rapidly growing and evolving business. We are moving towards a Test Driven development and Continuous Integration environment using Bamboo and Bitbucket. The candidate will work aside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the overall software development lifecycle and ensure the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases.
This position will be part of a Digital accelerator journey at Schwab and we will focus on driving client-centricity, reducing time to market & increasing efficiency. The model is insights-driven and focuses on rapid iterations to drive innovation and transformation. Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more integrated client-centric experiences, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.
]What youâre good at:
- Execute on Scrum Master Responsibilities that include prioritizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices
- Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
- Track internal and external Project dependencies
- Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
- Foster data driven insights and continuous improvement.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress, maintain process documentation.
- Deliver accurate and succinct updates and critical issues (with business impacts) during Scrum of Scrums and Biweekly Sprint Review meetings
- Serve and support team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Leaders and Project Managers
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions and deliver the sprint goal; Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Empower the teams to self-organize; improve the efficiency of the sprint teams; ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable.
- Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
- Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverable are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases
- Take on individual tasks within the sprint when necessary, to allow engineers to focus on engineering work.
What you have:
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years Scrum Master Experience.
- Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence).
- Detailed understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
- Must be an excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
- Experience working with agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects for a large enterprise.
- Thorough understanding of the software development life-cycle.
- Highly adaptable to changing environment.
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
- Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential.
- Must be self-motivated, as well as, creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
- Ability to set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.
- Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts
- Prior programming experience a huge plus
- Previous experience writing any object oriented programming language
- Experience taking Business requirement and writing technical requirement using BDD
- Any Kanban experience would be a plus
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