Financial Services Scrum Master - Whippany, NJ (Hybrid Onsite)

Empower Professionals - Hanover, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Hanover, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Financial Services Scrum Master role is focused on facilitating Agile practices within a team in the financial services sector. This position involves supporting the intake of work, ensuring alignment on tools and processes, and helping the team to establish realistic commitments based on historical data. The Scrum Master will work closely with stakeholders and product managers to communicate priorities and remove impediments to ensure smooth delivery of projects.

Responsibilities

• Support the intake of work into the team by gaining alignment on tools and process
• Keep stakeholders informed of the teams progress toward release commitments
• Help the team establish realistic commitments using historical capacity and performance data
• Assist teams in capturing and breaking down delivery of more complex requests that require coordination between teams
• Help the team escalate and remove impediments
• Remove blockers called out from daily stand up
• Work with the teams to inspect and adapt delivery practices to further optimize the flow of value
• Work with Product Managers (PM) to understand and help communicate business priority clearly to product teams, especially when the priority shifts
• Provide coaching on the team to help resolve process issues

Requirements

• Scrum Master SAFe Certification is highly desired
• Proven track record of success executing in an Agile environment, including SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• 2 years of experience in an IT execution role (e.g., Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer or Product Owner)
• JIRA systems working knowledge
• Confluence systems working knowledge
• Experience working with application development and infrastructure teams
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization and the ability to deliver sensitive/difficult information tactfully
• Ability to develop a working knowledge of the technical domain to effectively support technical risks that may arise
• Ability to assess problems and solve them with a sense of urgency
• Ability to motivate a team to work together in the most efficient manner
• Ability to effectively analyze data and apply solutions
• Ability to lead and motivate diverse project teams and juggle multiple tasks