Major Areas Of Accountability

• Teach and act as Scrum master with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
  
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.
• Facilitate effective coordination with other Scrum teams, project teams, and/or operational teams.
• Consult with the Product Owner to validate priorities
  
• Ensure cross-team coordination; facilitate getting the work done without, assigning, or dictating the work
  
• Foster self-organization. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  
• Manage and communicate relevant metrics to team on progress against team objectives
  
• Coach and mentor other scrum masters in our product team.
• Ensure methods used are consistent across the teams
  
• Act as a project manager when necessary.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between our team and third parties or between our team and other scrum teams
  
• Foster transparency and visibility and radiate information to strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence.
• Actively contribute to the company??s Agile and Lean Community.
• Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
  

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or equivalent work experience
  
• 8 - 10 years of experience of large program/portfolio management and strategic planning; 5+ years project management experience.
  
• Proven track record in project portfolio management and establishment of project methodology standards; very experienced with prioritization techniques.
  
• Excellent communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
  
• Strong ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities
  
• High level of organization and attention to detail
  
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel
  
• Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development
  
• Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
  
• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
  
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team; understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
  
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
  
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
  
• Financial Services industry experience
  
• Experience with PPM Software a plus
  
• PMP, Scrum Master, or Portfolio Management certifications strongly preferred
  
• Experience with agile methodology
  
• No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises large complex project teams with cross-functional team members.
  

Preferred

• Certified Project Manager or similar industrial certification
  
• Mastera??s degree in a related field