Scrum Master - Asset Management

Thrivent • Minneapolis, MN

5d • Onsite

About The Position

We exist to help people achieve financial clarity. At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given. At our core, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our clients. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow. Job Summary The Scrum Master – Asset Management leads and influences the Team according to their needs and to follow Scrum. The Scrum Master – Asset Management has experience with the Scrum framework, Scrum values, Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto and coaches others on the subtleties. They partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and product delivery, planning and executing on product tasks and driving for results through both product team members and stakeholders. They leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion, carefully balancing the three constraints of cost, time, and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise. They ensure accountability, transparency, and regularity in product status updates. They serve as a partner in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business or other technical related field or equivalent work experience.
• 2-4 years in a lead role on projects, scrum teams, and/or business led initiatives.
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices.
• High level of organization and attention to detail.
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
• Strong communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
• Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in leading agile teams in SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban contexts.
• Certified Scrum Master or similar certification.
• Experience managing essential risk mitigation activities including identification, tracking, follow-up, escalation, and contingency planning on risks, issues.
• Understand multiple software development processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise.
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
• Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics.
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives.
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel.

Responsibilities

• Provides consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintaining the product roadmap, release plan and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
• Facilitate Scrum master meetings for assigned product area with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal and drive cross functional partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Facilitate effective coordination with other Scrum teams, product teams, and/or operational teams.
• Consult with the Product Owner to validate priorities.
• Foster self-organization and cross team collaboration.
• Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes, by analyzing current and new product management processes.
• Help the team monitor progress daily.
• Identify opportunities for the team to improve incrementally.
• Maintain relevant metrics to show progress.
• Manage and communicate relevant metrics to team on progress against team objectives.
• Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs.
• Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence.
• Actively contribute to the company’s Agile and Product Community.
• Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)).
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
• Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

Benefits

• various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees