Scrum Master II
About The Position
This job is responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams. Key responsibilities include optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered for medium to high complexity projects and programs. Job expectations include ensuring the team resolves impediments quickly, following agreed-to processes, and maintaining a good relationship with the product management team and other stakeholders. This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by one or more Scrum/Kanban team(s) and is focused on serving the needs of the team to drive performance and growth. Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, managing dependencies for assigned teams, providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress, enabling continuous improvement within the team. This role ensures the impediments are resolved quickly, the team follows their agreed to processes, and that there is a good relationship between the Product Owner and the development team. Must be able to promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, empowering the team to become self-managing and fulfill their cross functional potential.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
- Must have practical working experience guiding and coaching teams on the implementation of agile best practices and changing mindsets.
- Knowledge of Bank of America's implementation of Scaled Agile
Nice To Haves
- Certifications from Scaled Agile or Scrum Alliance preferred but not required.
- Practical knowledge of the applications supported by our teams and ability to work with very demanding LOB partners.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Provides visibility into the Agile team's delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
- Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
- Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team
- Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog
- Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles
- Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
