Scrum Master - Financial Services

The Scrum Master creates and maintains an environment for continuous learning and relentless improvement.

Helps the agile team coordinate dependencies with other teams and communicates status of these dependencies as needed. Collaborates with other agile teams to identify, promote, and adopt best practices and lessons learned to optimize team and program performance.

Specifically the successful candidate should meet the following:

• Guides rather than drives teams toward objectives, goals, and continuous improvement.
• Initiates and fosters collaboration, communication, and team building.
• Works to remove impediments in the organization so that the team can remain focused on achieving its goals.
• Facilitates team and program relentless improvement.
• Helps the team achieve and improve in areas including quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Facilitates Scrum rituals including Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning and Retrospective.
• Coordinates solution implementation and delivery with other Scrum Masters and external teams.
• Effective and timely communication to all levels of the organization
• Balances changes in direction or requirements while protecting the team so the team can achieve committed objectives.
• Acts as a model for addressing conflict and barriers to collaboration.
• Collaborates with Product Owners to ensure team execution and performance are aligned with business objectives - near and long-term.