THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING:

• Top 25 U.S. digital financial services company committed to developing award-winning technology and services.
• Named one of the top three fastest-growing banking brands in the U.S. in 2020.
• Offers a full suite of products including mortgage lending, personal lending, and a variety of deposit and other banking products (savings, money-market, and checking accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), and individual retirement accounts (IRAs)), self-directed and investment-advisory services, and capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.
• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered.

WHAT THEY OFFER YOU:

• Fast paced, highly collaborative, teamwork-oriented environment
• Make an immediate impact in this high visibility role
• Ability to drive change within the organization with a focus on advancement in technology and programs
• Top-notch leadership committed to developing people 

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT

• Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team.
• Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients.
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies for 1-2 teams.  
• Uses historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments
• Works with the project sponsor and product owner to determine staffing requirements and resource procurement
• Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization, Maintains risk register and escalates where needed
• Utilizes standardized tools and techniques for estimating costs associated with a project including physical, financial and human capital costs, and continuously monitors the actual cost of a project versus the budget.
• Conducts in-depth root cause analysis of project budget discrepancies.
•  Effectively utilizes progress indicators such as burn-down and burn-up charts.
• Utilizes the team definition of done to guide the team during their sprint commitments..
• Guides the team by providing meaningful feedback.
• Effectively facilitates retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team. Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
• Tracks and measures client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations.
• Generates appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change while facilitating identification and removal of obstacles to change.

THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS

• Minimum of 1-3 years of Scrum Master experience
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM or related certification strongly preferred)
• 3 or more years managing projects
• Thorough understanding of agile and waterfall methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Data driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery. 
• Experience with relevant business software (e.g. Microsoft Office applications, Team Foundation Server).
• Experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server Agile, Jira or similar tool.
• Controls a program level view and status and uses the information in Clarity/Open Workbench to communicate on multiple projects and programs at a time. 
• Able to use Clarity/Open Workbench tool to determine how the intersection of multiple projects and programs impacts the department.
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
• Ability to understand and communicate technical issues.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Ability to keep team engaged and on task.