Scrum Master II

Scrum Master II

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Job Description

This job is responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies, managing dependencies, providing visibility into delivery plans and progress, promoting agile principles and mindset through coaching, and enabling continuous improvement across multiple scrum teams. Key responsibilities include optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered for medium to high complexity projects and programs. Job expectations include ensuring the team resolves impediments quickly, following agreed-to processes, and maintaining a good relationship with the product management team and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives

Provides visibility into the Agile team's delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders

Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal, and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements

Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team

Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog

Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles

Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncs

Required Qualifications

3-5 years of applicable experience

Highly motivated and experienced Project Manager/Scrum Master responsible for helping organize, lead, and deliver on highly visible projects focused on delivering next generation event processing, alerting and analytics and regulatory reporting.

The candidate would be hands on working within Bank of America Global Markets Data and Architecture (DNA ARC) group, building systems that service users including front office execution services consultants, sales traders, data scientists, and compliance.

The role involves working with a variety of stakeholders, up and down stream applications, along with the internal development team to deliver on several projects across the initiative portfolio.

Candidates must have a passion for working in fast paced development focused environments and working in a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders.

Strong understanding of Equities trading

Working knowledge of NFRR regulatory landscape is a plus

Experience in writing functional and non-functional requirements

Ability to write database queries (SQL) and facilitate analysis

Skills

Agile Practices

Business Acumen

DevOps Practices

Influence

Result Orientation

Collaboration

Solution Delivery Process

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Test Engineering

Application Development

Architecture

Automation

Risk Management

Stakeholder Management

Minimum Education Requirement

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent work experience.

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. Should you be offered a role with Bank of America, your hiring manager will provide you with information on the in-office expectations associated with your role. These expectations are subject to change at any time and at the sole discretion of the Company. To the extent you have a disability or sincerely held religious belief for which you believe you need a reasonable accommodation from this requirement, you must seek an accommodation through the Bank's required accommodation request process before your first day of work.

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