Agile Scrum Master

$145,600 - $163,030/Yr

BCforward - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Agile Scrum Master at BCforward will play a crucial role in facilitating Agile processes and ceremonies, ensuring that teams deliver value effectively. This position involves influencing stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices, driving prioritization decisions, and supporting self-organizing teams. The Scrum Master will also assess the agility level of the program, manage risks, and help improve overall project execution.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum/Kanban level ceremonies.
• Facilitate Program level events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value.
• Influence leaders, teams, and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Drive 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 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 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 delivery metrics to leadership team.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in Project Management and Scrum Master role for a software 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 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.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field).
• Banking domain experience.

Benefits

• Major medical insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer-provided group life insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401k