Lead Scrum Master

Alliant Credit Union•Chicago, IL

14d•$92,600 - $144,100•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Scrum Master will act as a strategic partner to drive an enterprise-wide agile mindset by collaborating with leaders, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Agile coaches, and stakeholders. This role involves continuous improvement, driving agile best practices, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing solutions. The Lead Scrum Master will also mentor other scrum masters, elevate the Agile Center of Excellence, and promote agile practices across domains. They will conduct agile maturity assessments, lead improvements, and develop agile standards for large-scale adoption. Additionally, the role requires aligning business units with enterprise transformation goals by escalating and resolving program-level impediments, risks, and blockers to ensure sustainable delivery performance. The Lead Scrum Master will partner with stakeholders to eliminate silos, enable cross-functional teamwork, and manage Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), while also resolving cross-team dependencies. This position will lead agile ceremonies such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, and Scrum of Scrums, providing statistics, identifying dependencies, forecasting team capacity and velocity, and managing burndowns, burn-ups, dashboards, and program board updates. Collaboration with product and program management is key to driving decisions based on team capacity, delivery progress, and backlog health, as well as improving PI readiness and implementing agile maturity indicators. The role involves coaching and collaborating with teams to maximize ROI and achieve PI objectives, supporting planning for alignment and milestone delivery. The Lead Scrum Master will partner with technology and business leaders to identify process gaps, optimize outputs, and drive data-informed decisions, promoting Agile adoption through coaching, ceremonies, and metric-based improvements. Value flow optimization through various tools like Kanban, ADO, the Program Board, and team metrics is essential. The role also includes assessing and enhancing value stream flow to improve agile practices related to DevOps and Release on Demand within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Partnering with systems teams to maintain Agile tools and ensure business unit support for transparency, flow, and delivery to OKRs/priorities is required. Finally, maintaining alignment, tagging, completion, reporting, and oversight of backlog items in Azure DevOps (ADO) is crucial for program transparency and timely adjustments. The position also requires adherence to and ensuring compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act, applicable laws, and company policies, maintaining integrity and ethics in all actions.

Requirements

Minimum- 4 Year Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Related
Minimum - 7 Years Scrum Master, Software Development or Related
10 Years Scrum Master, Agile practices, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban, Software development, or Related (In Lieu of Education)

Nice To Haves

Preferred - 3 Years Scrum Master, Agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Kanban or Related
Preferred - 1 Year Leadership/Mentorship Role
Preferred: Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or related
Preferred: Advanced Certified-Scrum Master (A-CSM)
Preferred: Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO) or related
Preferred: SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) or related
Preferred: SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or related

Responsibilities

Act as a strategic partner to drive enterprise-wide agile mindset by partnering with leaders, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Agile coach and stakeholders.
Continue improvement and drive agile best practices, identify inefficiencies, lead and implement solutions.
Partner with leaders to mentor scrum masters, elevate the Agile Center of Excellence, promote across domains.
Conduct agile maturity assessments, lead improvements, identify inefficiencies, lead solutions, develop agile standards and drive adoption of best practices at scale.
Align business units with enterprise transformation goals by escalating and resolving program-level impediments, risks, and blockers to support delivery performance sustainably.
Partner with stakeholders to eliminate silos and enable cross-functional teamwork, Objective and Key Results (OKRs) and resolve cross-team dependencies.
Lead agile ceremonies, such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums.
Provide statistics, identify project dependencies, team capacity, velocity forecasts, burndowns and burn-ups, dashboards, and program board updates.
Partner with product and program management to drive decisions based on team capacity, delivery progress, and backlog health.
Improve PI readiness and implement agile maturity indicators.
Coach and collaborate with teams to maximize ROI and achieve PI objectives and support planning to ensure alignment and milestone delivery.
Partner with technology and business leaders to identify process gaps, optimize outputs to drive data decisions.
Promote Agile adoption through coaching, key ceremonies, and metric-based process improvements.
Manage and optimize the flow of value through the agile teams using various tools, such as Kanban, ADO, the Program Board, team Measure & Grow metrics and other information radiators.
Assess and enhance value stream flow to improve agile practices related to DevOps and Release on Demand within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
Partner with systems teams to maintain Agile tools and ensure business units support transparency, flow and deliver to business OKRs/priorities.
Maintain alignment, tagging, completion, reporting and oversight of backlog items (stories/features) in Azure DevOps (ADO) to maximize project and program transparency and ensure timely program adjustments.