Job description
Greetings!
Our client is the world’s largest credit union with over 10 million members, over $149 billion in assets, and over 23,000 employees.
Our client Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking an Scrum Master(Enterprise Technology Systems)-15355-Remote. You seem to have a rock-solid profile and your overall background seems to be a great match for the position.
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Description:
Serve as a liaison between the Product Owner and the product team to help embrace agile values, apply agile practices and to drive delivery results by monitoring progress, eliminating impediments and seeking opportunities for continued improvements.
Requires a strong understanding of agile principles and best practices. Must be adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, resource allocation, capacity planning and other Scrum techniques.
Proficient with Agile metrics to help the team set benchmarks, measure against goals, and evaluate performance. Establish baselines and improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. Prepare the Quarterly Metrics for Leadership. Maintain and update the Program and Team Dashboards. Must be able to provide applicable insights and thoughts to leadership based on ongoing metric results.
Facilitate Team Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives to maintain focus and productivity. Ensure all PBI’s, Features, Epics, Themes, Bugs and Risks are in alignment with NFCU’s ADO standardization with clear and concise details.
Lead and contribute to the Program Increment Planning ceremonies. This will include assistance in creating objectives, ensuring that features are linked, Risks and dependencies are identified, and the Planned Business Value is documented. Schedule routine meetings to determine state of Objectives and identify and resolve any impediments for the current PI.
Serve as the team’s representative within the ART for the Scrum of Scrums meetings to identify any Roadblocks, Impediments and Key Accomplishments and share relevant information with the team. Drive to continuously improve communication and collaboration within the product team and with other delivery teams and stakeholders Maintain the ADO Data Integrity Dashboard by identifying and rectifying any issues.
Work closely with PO and PPM to manage the sprint backlog and ensure sprint planning aligns with Roadmap features and PI objectives. Clearly understand what work we’re doing today and how that impacts work that is planned on roadmap. Must be able to identify potential risks and dependencies.
Must have working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and technical product development activities. Knowledge of cloud-based technology is preferred. Understanding technical features and user stores is essential to effectively managing sprint delivery.
Perform other duties as assigned.
A Scrum Master facilitates the Scrum process, removes impediments, and ensures teams adhere to Agile principles for optimal performance.
1. Strong knowledge of Scrum and Agile methodologies
2. Excellent facilitation and conflict resolution skills
3. Experience with Scrum tools and techniques
4, Experience with budgeting and accounting operations
5. Experience in process improvement activities
