First American Financial
posted 2 months ago
First American Trust is seeking a motivated Scrum Master with 3-5 years of experience to facilitate scrum ceremonies, coach and mentor team members, help Product Owners to manage their backlog, and assist in release planning. As a Scrum Master, you will drive effective scrum ceremonies including daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. You will track and distribute relevant metrics and report periodically to show team progress and velocity. Your role will involve identifying, understanding, and tracking impediments; helping to remove them and driving improvements to optimize how the team works. You will also help the Product Owner manage customer expectations and stakeholder communications, acting as a liaison between the team and everyone else to minimize interruptions to the sprint, keeping the team focused on delivering a quality product on time. In addition, you will build a safe and trusting team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or judgement, with an emphasis on problem solving. You will represent the team in the Scrum of Scrum and the ART Sync, helping the team prepare for PI Planning and guiding them during the event to complete all of their tasks. Demonstrating a growth mindset, you will coach the team and Product Owner on how to improve their practices to excel at scale. This position requires a strong understanding of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum and Kanban, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment while managing multiple priorities and projects simultaneously without compromising quality. You will need to possess exceptional communication skills to keep teams operating at maximum efficiency while ensuring that senior leaders and executive management are always informed of progress.