Sr. Scrum Master

• Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities that include organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other meetings
• Influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
• Track internal and external Project dependencies?
• Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation
• Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts)?
• Serve and support team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal; Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Empower the teams to self-organize;?improve the productivity of the sprint teams;?ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable?
• Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
• Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverable are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases

Preferred industries or clients you have had success hiring from in the past? prev fin tech exp is a plus , AIM exp - authentication and identity exp, * Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years?Scrum Master Experience

• Kanban experience would be a plus
• Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards including feature break down to Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Subtasks
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
• Must be an excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
• Experience working with agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
• Highly adaptable to changing environment
• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential
• Must be self-motivated, well as creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.?
• Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
• Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.?
• Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts
• Experience taking Business requirement and writing technical requirement using BDD
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, written and verbal
• Self-starter, organized, ability to work on multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams

Must Have *

• agile , person will be wearing muti hats on the team, scrum, release, and some program mgmt
• Release and scrum - top
• Some technical expertise will be helpful here
• Tools: jira, going towards rally (good to have)

Pluses

• AIM - understanding, identy and authentication - plus