Agility Senior Associate - Scrum Master

Description

Join our dynamic team to advance agile methodologies, fostering innovation and high-quality solution delivery in a collaborative environment.

As an Agility Senior Associate in Commercial & Investment Bank - Small & Medium Business (SMB), you will contribute to the team by guiding and supporting solution delivery teams in adopting and adapting agile practices throughout the product development lifecycle. Leveraging your advanced knowledge of agile principles you will facilitate group discussions, decision-making processes, and collaborative activities to build continuous improvement and high performance. Your expertise in coaching, communication, and leadership will enable you to effectively manage complex projects, foster a culture of innovation, and enable the successful delivery of high-quality solutions.

Job responsibilities

Facilitate the adoption and adaptation of agile methodologies within teams and provide guidance, training, and support to propel continuous improvement and high performance

Facilitates scrum events including but not limited to daily scrum, refinement, planning, review, and retrospective

Assists teams in resolving impediments regardless of where they are in the organization

Builds productive relationships amongst the team and follows through on commitments to gain trust and respect

Leads and coaches the benefits of working in an agile manner, including agile practices, events, and techniques to all employees within span of influence

Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts

Enable agile project delivery by facilitating the prioritization of tasks and managing resources to effectively address complex situations to achieve project goals

Analyze and interpret policies, identify key barriers, and apply your critical thinking skills to address challenges within the product development lifecycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on guiding teams to adopt agile methodologies and practices

Practical experience in collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and MS Teams

Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices

Demonstrate proficiency in facilitating group discussions, decision-making processes, and collaborative activities within teams to achieve product goals

Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels within the organization, effectively guiding group discussions and decision-making processes within the domain context

Expertise with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization

Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels

Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as SAFe and various other Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban

Showcase proficiency in agile delivery and agile approaches, with a developing ability to coach teams and strive for continuous improvement and high performance

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Possess the business acumen required to ensure that goals, scope, and product domain knowledge is shared and understood by everyone on the team as well as possible

Strong ability to manage multiple priorities, analyze data, and develop solutions

Excellent verbal and written skills; adept at decision-making in fast-paced environments

Experience in driving change and implementing organizational improvements