M&T Bank - Buffalo, NY
posted about 2 months ago
As a Cybersecurity Senior Scrum Master at M&T Bank, you will provide servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams. Your role will involve the effective application of Agile principles and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP). You will strengthen the teams' understanding of effective practices, theories, and techniques to support continuous improvement. Your responsibilities will include educating and coaching teams to create an environment that fosters self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and continuous improvement. You will visualize, communicate, and radiate team information to keep their work and impediments visible to stakeholders. In this position, you will utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices, including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, pairing, and information radiators, to help create high-performing teams. You will encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives. Additionally, you will curate team-level coaching content to guide teams regarding agile practices and facilitate various meetings for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving, and alignment. Your role will also involve addressing blocking issues that are beyond the teams' authority or require support from other teams, ensuring that the teams remain focused on achieving their goals. You will work with other Agile Leaders to increase the effectiveness of Agile application within the organization and provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters. Seeking and hosting a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading, and classroom training, will also be part of your responsibilities. Furthermore, you will need to understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite, identifying risk-related issues needing escalation to management. You will design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis, while promoting an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand. Lastly, you will maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable, and complete other related duties as assigned.