Senior Associate, Scrum Leader

The Scrum Leader is accountable for establishing and maintaining Scrum, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization. The Scrum Leader serves the Scrum Team (Team) by: Causing removals of impediments to the Team's progress; Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox; Helping Teams focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done. The Scrum Leader serves the Product Owner by: facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed. The Scrum Leader serves the Organization by: Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work.

Primary responsibilities include: Ensuring Scrum principles and practices are followed, Scrum team events occur, are productive and kept within timeboxes. Removing impediments identified by Teams. Tracking and resolving team dependencies. Ensuring Teams' effectiveness in using Scrum. Facilitating and guiding Teams to deliver expected outcomes with high quality. Helping Teams focus on creating increments of value for each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration goals in the context of current program objectives. Facilitates Team level events and readiness. Helps Teams come up with Iteration Goals and PI objectives. Aggregate team objectives into Program Objectives. Fosters innovation and implementation of strategic solutions within regional/global, large programs. Ensures SDLC lifecycle, activities and artifacts are managed to completion, where applicable. Gets teams within programs to high performing levels by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques. Contributes to the achievement of related teams' objectives.

Relevant competencies: Agile Methodologies-Intermediate / Kanban-Beginner / Leadership-Beginner / Lean-Beginner / Process Improvement-Intermediate / Scaled Frameworks-Beginner / Scrum-Advanced / Servant Leadership-Intermediate / Software Development-Intermediate / Written and Oral Communication-Intermediate

Modified based upon local regulations/requirements. Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required. 2-4 years of relevant experience in similar role. Previous technical experience is preferred; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus. Experience in Scrum Master role for software development team for large initiatives. Knowledge of various Agile approaches: Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, Spotify, etc. Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games. Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence etc. Ability to learn new technology quickly, demonstrated by experience in an engineering environment. Ability to take ambiguous topics and translate into actionable plans working with multiple business, operational and technical stakeholders. Excellent communication and mentoring skills. Preferred to have Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, SAFe SSM. Talent for driving change. Ability to drive consensus and resolve conflicts across multiple parties. Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of Agile methods, User Story writing, and prioritization techniques.

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