Scrum Master

Job Responsibilities:

Facilitating Scrum routines (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, etc)

Collaborating with Product owner and Dev team to prioritize and define stories using JIRA

Coordinating work between onshore based in US and offshore teams

Integrating with project, technology and business partners to manage the projects and be proactive in gathering status updates from partners, while minimizing impact

Ability to influence and negotiate both vertically and horizontally

Ensuring the team has a healthy Product and Sprint backlog - supports Product Owner

Provides visibility into the Agile teams delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders

Measuring team delivery, maturity, and performance and reviews the metrics with the team to identify improvement opportunities

Required Skills:

5-7 years experience in technology and working in an agile environment

Must be SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) 5 certified. Preferably SASM SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

Working knowledge of Lean Agile SDLC processes and deliverables

Ability to lead discussions and learning sessions with 30+ attendees

Willingness to facilitate learning and empower team members to teach others (Train the Trainer)

Working knowledge of Quality Center/Application Lifecycle Management

Excellent proficiency and hands-on experience with Jira tool

Experience in developing and delivering education sessions

Experience in education and demonstrating facilitation of core agile practices, including but not limited to:

Servant Leadership

Kanban & Scrum Framework experience

Value stream mapping

Feature and story backlog prioritization and refinement

Release planning (Program Increment)

Excellent analysis and troubleshooting skills

Proficient with Microsoft Office suite.

Process oriented and detailed oriented

Positive attitude and open to feedback. Problem solver, not a problem maker.

Desired Skills:

SAFe RTE 5 certification is a plus

JIRA Query Language experience

Basic Data analysis skills, SQL, Reporting tool knowledge is preferred

Prior experience in finance sector