Senior Scrum Master
Discover. A brighter future.
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Job Description
The Scrum Master role is responsible for implementation of prioritized business use cases via agile Sprints within the high-visibility Discover Commerce Exchange (DCX) program. DCX is the Gold Standard for enriched merchant data at DFS, and the solution provides detailed merchant data to cardholders as well as internal and external clients. He/she will oversee multiple high-priority projects, which often require high levels of functional integration and cross-functional resources. These projects are on the radar of upper management and the expectation is that this level would be able to communicate the status of the project at any point in time. The sprints will deliver functionality that builds the foundational data layer for the DCX solution.
Responsibilities:
· Coach the scrum team to become a self-organized, cross-functional and highly efficient team that delivers high-quality products.
· Facilitates team activities including daily stand up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning and team retrospectives.
· Collaborate with Product Manager to plan roadmap execution based on estimates and capacity; also identify risks to the plan.
· Manages Sprint release deliverables, providing clarity and story assignments to the scrum team and removing impediments.
· Facilitate documenting, publishing and executing the teams’ continuous improvement plan .
· Strong communication, leadership and relationship building.
· Model, promote, and encourage Agile values, best practices, processes, and behaviors.
· Publish and present teams’ agile metrics to management and stakeholders.
· Participate and/or Lead scrum adoption practices across the organization and related Community of Practices.
· Publish and present teams’ agile metrics to management and stakeholders.
· Identifies dependencies between agile teams and communicates and resolves dependencies between different teams.
· Manages Sprint release deliverables and proactively identifies and resolves impediments to ensure Sprint release stays on track and update Sprint activities in Agile planning and execution tracking tool.
Skills Required
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
· Bachelors degree in Information Technology, or related
· 2+ years of experience in coaching and mentoring skills on Agile methodology and understand Scrum framework.
Skills Desired
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
· 2+ years Scrum Master experience in a large organization
· 3+ years software development project manager experience
· Experience with SDLC (both Waterfall and Agile hands on experience)
· Experience in Agile / Scrum development methodologies & tools (Jira)
· Experience proving reporting through JIRA
· Scaled Agile Framework
· Problem solving, analytical and creative thinking.
· Teamwork and collaboration; interpersonal skills.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including managing client expectations, communicating issues, risks, and opportunities, and articulating a clear vision of project success
· Hands-on experience with Rally, Jira, MS Teams, and Miro
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