M&T Bank - Buffalo, NY
posted 5 months ago
As a Senior Scrum Master at M&T Bank, you will provide servant-leadership and mentorship to multiple cross-functional agile teams, applying Agile principles and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP). Your role will be pivotal in strengthening the teams' understanding of effective practices, theories, and techniques that support continuous improvement. You will educate and coach teams to foster an environment that encourages self-organization, cross-functionality, collaboration, conflict resolution, transparency, and ongoing improvement. Your responsibilities will include visualizing, communicating, and radiating team information to ensure that their work and impediments are 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, 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 in 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 and require support from other teams, ensuring that the teams remain focused on achieving their goals. You will collaborate with other Agile Leaders to enhance the effectiveness of Agile application within the organization and provide mentorship to less experienced Scrum Masters. Furthermore, you will seek and host a variety of individual and team learning opportunities, such as communities of practice, conferences, meetups, reading, and classroom training. It is essential to understand and adhere to the company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls, identifying risk-related issues that need escalation to management. You will also 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.