Asset & Wealth Management-Scrum Master Engineer-Associate-Albany
About The Position
The mission of the Agile team is increasing the value, transparency, and happiness of software delivery teams through Agile and related practices. We coach individuals, teams and programs. This forward-looking group defines scaling practices, team-level best practices, tooling, and reporting, and will always be on the front line of agility within the firm. As a member of Agile, this Associate-level Scrum Master will help drive the success of individual teams while working with senior Agile professionals as a custodian for continuous improvement in how delivery teams become high-performing teams that consistently deliver customer value.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience
- Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
- Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Comfortable with Scrum concepts like refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Atlassian JIRA
- 3 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and support Agile events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Influence team behavior towards continuous improvement through effective communication, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Coach engineers, designers, product owners and subject matter experts in Agile practices, values and principles
- Ensure Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
- Guide team members in story writing and refinement, backlog maintenance, prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs
- Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles
- Work with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role
- Track and remove impediments, and guide the team to remove impediments
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
