Lead Scrum Master
Wells Fargo - Irving, TX
posted 5 months ago
About the position
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Scrum Master, experienced in Kanban and Scrum, to serve a critical role in our transforming organization. In this position, you will lead, grow, coach, and support Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads by actively advocating for and coaching growth in Agile capabilities and mindset. Your role will involve coaching the Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads in enterprise-aligned agility practices and focusing on continuous improvement while delivering value in a large-scale agile transformation. You will also facilitate productivity by identifying and assisting in removing impediments that may obstruct the Scrum Master's or Kanban Lead's goals. Your contributions in this role will be an important element of our agile practice, helping realize our vision to enable and continuously improve our Scrum Master and Kanban Lead community. As a Lead Scrum Master, you will manage and develop Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity. You will guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint. Your responsibilities will include optimizing scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance, overseeing systemic impediments to team agility, and guiding the teams on methods to escalate. You will deliver capabilities using agile practices while following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met. Additionally, you will partner with discipline managers to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards, collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the teams, and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness. In this role, you will also collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals, interact with internal customers, and receive direction from leaders while exercising independent judgment. You will develop the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements, and train other Scrum Masters while serving as a mentor to less experienced staff.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, coach, and support Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads.
- Advocate for and coach growth in Agile capabilities and mindset.
- Facilitate productivity by identifying and assisting to remove impediments.
- Manage and develop Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity.
- Guide teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
- Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities.
- Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide teams on methods to escalate.
- Deliver capabilities using agile practices while following the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Partner with discipline managers to convey concerns to scrum teams about governance policies.
- Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the teams.
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
- Train other Scrum Masters and serve as a mentor to less experienced staff.
Requirements
- 5+ years of practicing Agile Scrum Master experience and practicing Kanban experience.
- 5+ years of experience facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, and Sprint Retrospective meetings).
- 5+ years of experience in building JQL, managing, delivering Jira boards and dashboards.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence software.
- 5+ years of experience in end-to-end project execution.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
Nice-to-haves
- Technology Infrastructure knowledge and experience (e.g., Network Services, Cloud, Hosting Platforms, Data Center, Data Platforms).
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills.
- Problem solving and conflict resolution ability.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques/artifacts and coaching experience.
- Ability to work with situations of ambiguity, conflict, and uncertainty.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Caregiver leave
- Commuter assistance
- Dependent care reimbursement
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Critical Caregiving Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption Reimbursement
