Scrum Master

ASGN - Brooklyn, OH

Full-time

Brooklyn, OH

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Scrum Master plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality software solutions as part of a cross-functional agile scrum team. This position is responsible for leading the scrum team, addressing sprint risks and roadblocks, and facilitating scrum ceremonies. Additionally, the Scrum Master acts as a change agent, promoting agile and scrum principles across KeyBank Merchant Services and other KeyBank Technology, Operations, and Service initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward an agile environment
• Facilitate Scrum processes and events enabling team maturity and effectiveness leveraging data driven metrics
• Create an agile mindset with focus on agile value and principles leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation resulting in delivery of high value increments which meet the Definition of Done
• Enable teams to develop sprint goals, robust product backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of done / ready
• Facilitate program level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning and scope alignment across Product teams
• Enable the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress
• Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the team to include stakeholder engagement
• Protect the team from distractions allowing for focus to meet sprint and program commitments
• Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the team coaching each role to enable high performance of the team

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master or Product Owner
• 5+ years working as a Scrum Master
• Expert in facilitation, problem solving and influencing outcomes
• Expert knowledge of best practices in value driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis driven development, usability testing)
• Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams or similar agile management tooling

Nice-to-haves

• Experience as a Project Manager in a waterfall environment
• Familiarity with both agile and waterfall
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale enterprise agile transformation with experience as a Scrum Master in a scaled environment

Benefits

• Quality career resources
• Training and certifications
• Development opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package