Agile Scrum Master

$142,230 - $158,870/Yr

Genesis10 - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Genesis10 is seeking an Agile Scrum Master to lead 1-2 delivery teams in the financial industry, focusing on Agile practices to deliver quality software solutions. This role involves facilitating Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, driving prioritization decisions, and supporting self-organizing teams. The Scrum Master will also engage with stakeholders to ensure alignment on project vision and execution, while managing risks and dependencies to enhance value delivery.

Responsibilities

• Play Scrum Master and Project Manager responsibilities for 1-2 delivery teams through Agile practices to deliver quality software solutions
• Facilitate Scrum/Kanban level ceremonies
• Facilitate Program level events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value
• Influences leaders, teams, and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
• Drives epic-level prioritization and sequencing decisions with key stakeholders through value vs estimation process
• Assess the agility level of the Program and help them improve
• Facilitate Agile processes and execution
• Provide the support needed by the Agile Delivery Teams, Product Teams, and Programs to be self-organizing and self-managing
• Escalate and track impediments, manage risk and dependencies, help ensure value delivery, and help drive relentless improvement
• Support Business, IT, and Product Management alignment on vision, roadmap, and priorities of the Program
• Engage and optimize the flow of value through the Project using various tools and other information radiators
• Establish a cadence and support cross-Project planning centered around value streams
• Work with Product Management, Solutions Management, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings within and across Projects
• Assist tracking the execution of features within the Project
• Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
• Support release management activities
• Provide the delivery metrics to leadership team

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in Project Management and Scrum Master role for a software development team
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• Good understanding in Big Data, Modelling, Web Services, Python and ETL
• Understand the overall architecture and challenge the development team
• Good experience with Agile methodologies (Kanban, TDD, etc.) and toolsets (Atlassian suite, JIRA, etc.)
• First level Scrum Master Certification (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master Certification or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) or PSM Certification(s)
• Ability to understand the architectural concepts
• Strong expertise in planning, execution and reporting
• Proven track record of ownership and driving projects
• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• Good experience in release management activities
• PMP Certification
• Banking domain experience

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
• Remote opportunities available